Liberal Education Course Revision Proposals for Spring 2013

Implementation of Liberal Education high impact practices continues to grow as the many emerging best-practices in teaching and learning are identified, streamlined and shared. There continues to be opportunity for faculty and staff to infuse integrative learning, multicultural learning, and global learning outcomes and pedagogical strategies into their current courses. An Integrative Learning Outcome was approved by University Governance February 28, 2012, as the sixth Liberal Education Learning Goal and Outcome.

Options Available for Fall 2012

• Infuse multicultural learning outcomes or global learning outcomes into your course(s) or a learning community that you're already involved in.
• Receive a stipend of $500 to attend a one-day workday July 25 or August 15 to revised your course(s) to integrate the outcomes and implement embedded assessment strategies.
• Multicultural and global learning proposal forms due June 1, 2012.
  
  

Options Available for Spring 2013

• Infuse multicultural learning outcomes or global learning outcomes into your course(s) or a learning community that you're already involved in. Receive a stipend of $500 to attend a one-day workday July 25, 2012 or August 15, 2012, or during January winterim 2013, to revise your course(s) to integrate the outcomes, and to develop and implement embedded assessment strategies. 
  
  Proposals are due October 16, 2012.
   
• Blugold Bundles Learning Communities provide our students opportunities to intentionally integrate knowledge and learn new skills across two or more disciplines. In addition, the cohort or community that is formed amongst the students provides students a support base and network for building relationships with each other and with instructors. Instructors involved in the bundles note improved engagement of students with the curriculum and in their class participation. The spring 2013 call is to expand Blugold Bundle Learning Communities for students who need to fulfill 100 or 200 level general education courses.If you are scheduled to teach a 100 or 200 level course in spring 2013, you are encouraged to connect with one or two instructors from different departments to come together and form a Blugold Bundle Learning Community. A Blugold Bundle Help Sheet may provide you with ideas.
  
  Instructors new to the bundle receive a stipend of $1000 to attend a two-day workday July 24 and 26, or August 16-17 with your Blugold Bundle instructor team. The workdays provide instruction and support with revising your course(s) to integrate the outcomes, to synchronize your syllabi, and to develop and implement embedded assessment strategies during spring semester.
  
  Blugold Bundle Integrative Learning proposals are due June 1, 2012. Notifications of acceptance will be provided by June 8, 2012.

Written Supports for Blugold Bundles Learning Community Proposals

• Blugold Bundle Help Sheet 
• Integrative Learning Outcomes
• Global Learning Outcomes
• Multicultural Learning Outcomes
• Multicultural and global learning proposal forms
• Blugold Bundle Integrative Learning proposals

Connecting with Colleagues Interested in Forming a Blugold Bundle Learning Community

• Complete the Bundle Development Interest Form to be added to the Liberal Education Bundle D2L discussion and to appear on the Faculty/Staff Bundle Development Interest Summary.
• Find help and consultation -- CETL

Return all proposals to Sarah Forcier.