2021 Kemper Speaker on Excellence in Teaching and Learning
February 11, 2021
The University Community is invited to join a virtual talk and workshop on Friday,
March 26, with the 2021 Kemper Speaker on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Jessie
L. Moore. Moore, the director of the Center for Engaged Learning and professor of
English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric at Elon University, will speak on creating
high-impact capstone experiences.
Cultivating Capstones: Defining Moments for Engaged Learning
Talk | March 26, 10-11:30 a.m. via Zoom
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What are the key components necessary to make capstone or culminating experiences high-impact and engaging learning opportunities? Drawing from multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research conducted at 21 colleges and universities in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this presentation examines how to enhance culminating experiences for student transformation. Within this framework, attendees will consider what Webster University’s outcomes survey data shows about culminating experiences at Webster - students appreciate such opportunities as “defining moments” in their lives with deep transformational impact, but we know that student access to these experiences varies widely.
By examining research on culminating experiences within the context of Webster, this talk identifies existing strengths in the university’s culminating experiences and potential areas for growth for transforming Webster’s students for global citizenship and individual excellence. Finally, the talk will explore how the pandemic has prompted higher education programs to reimagine what these culminating experiences look like – often resulting in unanticipated benefits for student learning. Even if you do not teach a capstone experience, take-aways about active learning, student engagement, and agency are applicable to courses across the curriculum.
Designing for Student Transformation and Degree Completion: Closing the Loop with Assessment
Workshop | March 26, 1-3 p.m. via Zoom
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Assessment often feels like a dreaded add-on to teaching and program administration. Yet meaningful assessment can help faculty create transformative learning experiences for students and can help degree programs improve pathways for students’ degree completion. This workshop explores a variety of teaching and learning activities that can serve as course-embedded assessment, giving faculty and programs data they need to (re)design for student transformation and degree completion. Participants also will have opportunities to brainstorm how reimagined assessment strategies could become part of a scholarship of teaching and learning inquiry project for presentation and publication.
This workshop is geared towards faculty and staff who participate in any part of the assessment or curriculum process and who want to learn new, meaningful avenues toward improving student learning.
About Our Speaker
Jessie L. Moore is director of the Center for Engaged Learning and professor of English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric at Elon University. Moore leads planning, implementation, and assessment of the Center’s research seminars, which support multi-institutional inquiry on high-impact pedagogies and other focused engaged learning topics. She is the author of Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff (under contract with Stylus) and co-editor of Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning (with Caroline J. Ketcham and Anthony G. Weaver, under contract with Stylus), Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research (with Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler and Paul Miller, CUR, 2018), Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning in Higher Education (with Randy Bass, Stylus, 2017), and Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer (with Chris Anson, The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2016). Her work has appeared in multiple writing studies, scholarship of teaching and learning, and faculty development journals and edited collections.
With Peter Felten, she edits two book series: the Stylus Publishing/Center for Engaged Learning Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching and the Center for Engaged Learning Open Access Book Series. Moore’s professional service to the scholarship of teaching and learning was recognized with the 2019 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Distinguished Service Award.