OADE Keynote Talk Resources

Greetings,

I have taught history courses for over three decades. It has been a long journey to provide a better learning environment for my students. Universal Learning Design allows me to embed best practices of learning assistance and developmental education inside my classroom. I am responsible for doing my part to support student success rather than just sending students down the hall and across the campus to locate tutoring or study group programs.

It is a delight to share some resources related to my online keynote talk I shared Friday morning. The following items are available to download.

Click on this link for PowerPoint slide handout of the presentation.

Click on this link to view the recording of the OADE Keynote presentation on applying Universal Learning Design to an introductory history course.

[New web link]. Click on this link to download ULD book edited by Higbee and Goff.

Click on this link to download Pedagogy and student services for institutional transformation: Implementation guidebook for student development programs and services.

Click on this like to download Pedagogy and student services for institutional transformation: Implemenation guidebook for faculty members.

Take care,

David

Updated Annotated Bibliography of Postsecondary Peer Cooperative Learning Programs Available

Greetings,

As part of my research, I maintain an annotated bibliography on the five major postsecondary peer cooperative learning programs: Emerging Scholars Program (ESP, Treisman Model), Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL, City College New York), Structured Leanring Assistance (SLA, Ferris College Model), Supplemental Instruction (SI, UMKC Model), and Video-based Supplemental Instruction (VSI, UMKC Model). I released an earlier version in 2005 and placed it in the online ERIC Database maintained by the Department of Education. Since then, I have added nearly 100 pages of new annotated references for these five programs. The most citations continue to be SI, however as a percentage basis the PLTL model is growing more quickly in the professional literature.

You might this a helpful resource for tutoring programs, peer learning programs, and scholars who publish on this topic area. It is free and available at http://z.umn.edu/peerbib No doubt I have missed some references (there are nearly 1,000). Please let me know about them and I will revise the bibliography and post to the same web address as the current version.

Take care, David

MRADE Keynote Talk

Greetings everyone,

Link to the PowerPoint slide handout from the talk.

Link to a directory and web links to online learning technology resources handout from the talk.

It was certainly fun to share with all of you today. Thanks for being my home team.

Take care,

David

Multicultural Competency within Student Study Groups

We are creating draft training materials on increasing multicultural competency among the study group leaders here at the University of Minnesota. You are invited to review the draft document and provide comments, http://z.umn.edu/competency. Please email your comments directrly to me at arendale@umn.edu While I have reviewed the many wonderful video training programs on cultural diversity, appreciating difference, and the rest, I am looking for training materials that are targeted for people working in academic support groups. I welcome your reaction to this very draft version of the materials. Thanks for the consideration.

Video Interview How I Use Learning Technology in My Class

Allison Link, one of the Technology Fellows attached to our academic department, interviewed me about how I use learning technology in my global history and culture course. Click on the following link to watch the 10 minute video hosted on YouTube. Please share your comments about your experiences with using learning technology in your classroom as a comment to this blog posting. I look forward to the conversation. Link for Video Interview with David Arendale.