New Foci Questions
The term “global” suggests spanning the world as well as focusing on a totality as opposed to its constitutive parts or units. Our perspective as educators expanding as we help our students uncover the world and its rich diversity. It is in that spirit that we offer the following foci:
 
  • What are the global dimensions of our teaching praxis?
    • How have our collaborative efforts broadened?
    • How have the resources to which we direct students changed?
    • Are there any limits on our ability to promote student exploration and inquiry?
    • What changes and innovations do we see unfolding before our eyes?
    • In what ways do we provide a global perspective for our students?
  • In what ways are we being challenged to reach beyond the traditional boundaries of teaching and learning?
    • What role can we, as individual practitioners, play in the change process?
    • How are we adapting new communication technologies to our teaching?
    • In what ways are we integrating web-based instructional tools into our courses?
    • Do we use technology as a tool for effective collaboration and resource sharing
      on campus and at a distance? How?
    • How do we assess which courses are appropriate for online delivery in a given context?
    • How do we navigate portals to reach new dimensions of higher learning?
  • Do we see colleagues and ourselves as lifelong learners along with our students?
    • How can portals serve as gateways to lifelong learning?
    • What activities/projects help to insure that we continue to learn?
    • Do we maintain primary focus on student learning while integrating new strategies, technologies, and delivery systems, and, if so, how?
    • What is the impact of e-learning on its access to lifelong learning for diverse, underserved populations?
  • How do we go about creating innovative learning spaces?
    • What are the elements of an effective learning environment?
    • What have we learned about the differences between virtual and face-to-face learning environments, and how does that knowledge inform our practice?
    • How can we develop a more holistic perspective on our teaching?
    • Are we creating learning spaces that are accessible to all learners?
    • How do e-Portfolios contribute to the ways that we learn, teach, assess, and create our educational environments?
  • How can technology foster the assessment and dissemination of pedagogical practice as a scholarly process?
    • How can we use and participate in developing portals, simultaneously building knowledge within our own group while advancing the knowledge of others?
    • What is the value of e-Journals as a means of disseminating the scholarship of teaching?
    • How does the use of e-Portfolios by students, faculty, and institutions contribute to significant changes in the way they approach, document, and understand learning?

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