SOCW 6396 Social Work Education: Principles and Skills.  A Doctoral Seminar.

	Course Syllabus
	Course Schedule

Introduction to Social Work Education: Food for thought on Higher Education

	Is Learning always the result of Teaching?
	TWO APPROACHES TO EDUCATION
	Learning Paradigms
	Paths to Learning
	Educational Philosophers Summary

Educational Philosophy

A summary of 50+ theories of learning:  http://tip.psychology.org

        1.  Plato:   

Summaries of Plato's ideas: http://www.crystalinks.com/plato.html

                                                            http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2h.htm#women

                                                            http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/

	Read the allegory of the cave online:  http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/Projects/digitexts/plato/the_republic/book07.html
	Read the rest of the Republic online:   http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/plato_republic.htm

Karl Popper's critique of Plato's educational ideas:   http://www.the-rathouse.com/RC_PopperEdu.htm

	http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96jun/rousseau.html
	Read Emile online:  (be sure to click on the drop down contents page in the left hand column):

                                                http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/pedagogies/rousseau/index.html

 

	Pragmatism.ppt
	JOHN DEWEY-definitions
	JOHN DEWEY 1852-1959-Elliott's favorite definitions
	The Dewey Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
	Summary Life and work:  http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/dewey.htm
	John Dewey and Pragmatism (this link has good links to other sites also)  http://dewey.pragmatism.org/
	Read Democracy and Education Online:

                        http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/dewey.html

	Paulo Freire: The Banking Metaphor (Ira Shor. in eds. McClaren and Leonard)
	6396/Freire2.ppt
	Paulo Freire: Education and Freedom
	http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
	Reviews of Freire's Books: http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/freire/freirebooks.html
	Paulo Freire: a Summary of his life and works.  Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed:
	http://www.unomaha.edu/~pto/paulo.htm
	The Freire Institute Brazil.(click on English version on the home page):   http://www.paulofreire.org/
	Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA:  http://paulofreireinstitute.org/

            5.  Malcolm Knowles

His life & work summary:

                    1)  http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-knowl.htm

               2)  http://www.ittheory.com/knowles.htm

Andragogy: http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1970knowles.html

              http://www.infed.org/lifelonglearning/b-andra.htm

            http://www.uni-bamberg.de/ppp/andragogik/andragogy/         http://www.hunter.tafensw.edu.au/showcase/casestudies/Reports/Executive_Summary.pdf

 

Hase & Kenyon online article:  From Andragogy to Heutagogy.  http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/dec00/hase2.htm#heutagony

Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives:

	Major categories summary & list of other links:  http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom.html
	Another summary:  http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/bloom.html
	http://www.stedwards.edu/cte/resources/blooms.htm
	Guide to developing educational Objectives: http://www.celts.monash.edu.au/hedu/higher_education_development-educational-objectives.html
	http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom1.html
	Learning Matrix   http://faculty.washington.edu/~krumme/uwired/matrix.html

	Linked and alternative definitions of active learning:  http://www.cetl.gatech.edu/resources/learningterms.pdf
	http://www.acu.edu/cte/activelearning/
	http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/resources/guides/active.html
	http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/active/scene1/
	http://www.active-learning-site.com/
	http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Cooperative_Learning.html
	http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/active.htm
	http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/tutorials/powerpoint/
	http://alh.sagepub.com/
	http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/AltTools.htm
	http://courses.science.fau.edu/~rjordan/active_learning.h
	http://cte.umdnj.edu/active_learning/index.cfm  ****This is a very comprehensive site.

 

	Active Learning in Higher Education    Sage Journals   http://www.sagepub.com/printerfriendly.aspx?pid=266&ptype=J
	*********UTA Website on Active Learning:   http://activelearning.uta.edu

Learning Styles: 

1)  List of web-based assessment tools and other resources: check out the course materials for the relevant courses on the following page: http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/edpsyint.htm                   Please see especially the following list from Valdosta Univ. Course materials on  Assessment and                                 Learning:                             Values in Action: Inventory of Strengths: from Positive Psychology (Martin Seligman)-- http://www.viastrengths.org Learning style online -- http://www.learning-styles-online.com/ Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire -- http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html Jung Typology Test -- http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp DISC Profiler -- http://www.personalityinsights.com/ Learning Styles: A Multiple Intelligences Approach -- http://pss.uvm.edu/pss162/learning_styles.html   VARK: Guide to learning styles -- http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp

2) Myers Briggs indicator and implications for teaching   http://www2.gsu.edu/~dschjb/wwwmbti.html

                                                                                                                 

	3)  Felder and Solomon; http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html
	4) Kolb's mode and Gardner's multiple intelligences:   http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm
	5) Learning styles:  http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles.html#kolb
	6) New students, new learning styles:   http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Academia/KierseyLearningStyles.html
	7) Learning styles summary; http://www.octc.kctcs.edu/tlc/LEARNING/Learning/learningstyles.html

Teaching Tips

	http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
	http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/resources/jit/index.html
	Tips for new faculty from the University of Minnesota:  http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/resources/jit/index.html
	Teaching Guides from the University of Minnesota:  http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/resources/guides/
	Seven Principles of Good Undergraduate Teaching :  implementation tips for the regular classroom and for Distance Education by James King:      http://www.agron.iastate.edu/nciss/kingsat2.html

Assessment

	Link to range of templates from University of Washington for courses, seminars etc.
	National Survey of Student Engagement     http://nsse.iub.edu/index.cfm#
	learning effectiveness instruments              http://www.cae.org/content/pro_collegiate.htm
	*******North Carolina State University:  A comprehensive website on Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment  http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm
	SEEQ An established instrument for teacher/course evaluation: http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/seeq/index.html
	MEQ    An instrument for assessing the teaching of a  module:   http://www.paisley.ac.uk/qeu/documents/GenericMQfS_000.pd

Grading, Rubrics and Primary Trait Analysis:

	FSU  Guidelines for Grading:   http://online.fsu.edu/learningresources/handbook/instructionatfsu/PDF-Chptr13.pdf
	Chapter from  Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis; Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco, 1993.  http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/grading.html
	Primary Trait Analysis:     Journal article   http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_general_education/v049/49.4benander.pdf
	Primary Trait Analysis useful web sites:  http://pages.towson.edu/assessment/rubrics_external_links.htm

                                                                                http://www.nvcc.edu/assessment/ir_performance.htm

Miscellaneous:                  

	Resources by:   Martin Ryder  University of Colorado at Denver  School of Education        http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/etexts.html
	Grade Inflation: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/perspectives2004.June.htm

Useful World Wide Web Links

1. Accreditation in Professional Education and Higher Education.

            a) Central Council for Education in Social Work (CSWE)

                Home Page and links to program accreditation information:  www.cswe.org

             b) Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges (SACS):                                                                                                                         http://www.sacscoc.org/

             c) Council for Higher Education Accreditation       http://www.chea.org/

              d) International Association of Schools of Social Work Global Qualifying

                   Standards Document      

                                        http://www.iassw.soton.ac.uk/Generic/GlobalQualifyingStandards/GlobalQualifyingStandards.asp?lang=e

2. Centers for Higher Education Learning Resources and Development

                a) Higher Education Resource Hub:     http://www.higher-ed.org/

                b) Association on Higher Education and Disability:  http://www.ahead.org/

                c) The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching:

                                                        http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/

                 d)  Florida State University, Office for Distributed and Distance learning:                http://online.fsu.edu/learningresources/handbook/instructionatfsu/

                  e) The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning: Resources for Instructors:

                                    http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/web/p01_instructors.html

3. A Global Perspective in Higher Education

        a)  International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) Home Page

                         http://www.iassw.soton.ac.uk

 

b) Council for Higher Education Accreditation  (CHEA) International

              Review:   http://www.chea.org/international/index.cfm

 

c)   The Higher Education Academy:  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/

 

         d)  Boston College Center for International Higher Education

                             http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/links/resource_links.htm#1

 

         e)  University of Melbourne Australia Center for Learning in Higher Education    

                   Nine Principles Guiding Teaching and Learning

                        http://www.unimelb.edu.au/student/teaching.html

 

           f)  The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE): 

                                        http://www.ltsn.ac.uk/

                The ILTHE Guide to Teaching:  (short, readable and useful tips) 

                http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/careers/story/0,9856,620225,00.html.

 

            g)  UNESCO Higher Education Portal:   http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22969&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

             h)  International Association of Universities (IAU):   

                                        http://www.unesco.org/iau/internationalisation.html

 

             i)  Recent innovations in teaching methods for Social Work Education in UK, Israel and Australia:

                                         A bibliography.

 

                                               

4.   Journals

Click here for a comprehensive list of active links to journals relating to various aspects of higher education

 

The Journal of Higher Education:   http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=jp_journal_of_higher_education&OFFID=se2jp

 

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:  http://www.jbhe.com/

 

Click here for a list of journals for submission of articles

 

 

5.  Distance Education

 

4/9/07   Presentation by Dr. P. Smith, UTA Vice President and Director of Distance Education :

Digital Conversations:  Learning Theory goes 21st Century.

Web Links recommended by Dr Smith related to his presentation  

Click on the links above to access

                a) The American Journal of Distance Education:   

                                                    http://www.ajde.com/index.htm

 

                    b) About the Open University (United Kingdom)

                          http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/O/htmlO/openuniversi/openuniversi.htm

 

                    c) Open University UK Home Page:  http://www.open.ac.uk/

 

                    d) Theoretical Bases:  http://www.rdnewman.com/manual/theory/

                      

                    e)  Distance Education & Andragogy:  

                                                   http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/ctla/resources_and.html

 

6.    Miscellaneous

                        a)  The Chronicle of Higher Education:    http://chronicle.com/news/

 

                           b) The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK):    

 http://www.thes.co.uk/

 

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                                UTA Syllabus template Fall 2006

 Learning outcome tips.

 

 

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     Active Learning assignments 2006 Spring for UTA Committee on active learning:

     1. Historical origins in intellectual thought and philosophy:   Rebecca Judd and Sherry Sheffield

                                  2. Applications of active learning in higher education: Delissa Nuno and Linda Benevides

                                  3. Incentives for faculty:    Miaora Diaconu and Joy Patton

                                  4. Technology and active learning:     Brian Peng

                                                                                                         Kristen Connor

                                  5.  Examples of active learning in the literature:  Kirsten Painter

                                  6.   Techniques:   Aaron Robb

                                                                 Dan Vandergriff

                                  7.  Effectiveness studies:  Van Nguyen

 

 

Click here to take you to Dan Vandergriff's website for GTA's:   http://www2.uta.edu/ssw/GTA_Tutor/

 

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Current debates and controversies on Higher Education and Social Work Education:

 

1. National Debate on Higher Education Standards 2006:

http://insidehighered.com/index.php/content/download/70817/971018/file/Draft%20Report%206.22%20watermarked.pdf

(Draft report from panel on higher education in USA released June 2006)

http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/28/commission

 (Comment on report from Inside Higher Ed)

 

2.  Link to National Association of Scholars report on the 'Scandal of Social Work Education' 2007