
Teagle Hybrid Learning Project
The Teagle Foundation is committed to supporting innovation in teaching and learning in liberal arts education, while focusing on accountability and backing high quality, cost-effective programming in higher education. Lafayette College, working in collaboration with LVAIC, was awarded a three-year grant “to collaboratively design courses and sets of modules” and build a network “of ‘Digital Faculty Fellows’ who will mentor each other and generate interest among colleagues to pursue hybrid course development opportunities that enrich the academic experience, while sharing costs and using classroom and laboratory facilities more efficiently.”
Project Period: 2015 – 2018
Project Goals
Developing a set of collaborative hybrid teaching –from modules and supporting materials to full courses that are aimed at:
- Improvement in achieving learning outcomes;
- Promoting faculty collaboration across LVAIC;
- Resource and cost savings/more efficient use of existing assets;
- Improved digital literacy; and
- Increased use of hybrid approaches with improved efficacy.
Partnering Institutions: Cedar Crest College; DeSales University; Lafayette College; Lehigh University; Moravian University; Muhlenberg College
Projects 2017-2018
Participating Faculty:
Dr. Patrick van Esch, Assistant Professor of Management, Moravian University
Dr. Ozias A. Moore, Assistant Professor of Management, Lehigh University
Dr. James Teufel, Assistant Professor & Program Director of Public Health, Moravian University
Participating Faculty:
Farah L. Vallera, Instructional Designer & Adjunct Professor, Lehigh University
Lizabeth Kleintop, Associate Chair of Graduate Programming & Accreditation, Moravian University
LaKeisha Thorpe, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies & Professional Programs, Moravian University
Participating Faculty:
Tahereh Alavi Hojjat, Professor of Economics, Desales University
Alberto J. Lamadrid, Assistant Prof of Economics, Lehigh University
John A. Cigliano, Professor of Biology, Cedar Crest University
Participating Faculty:
Dr. Julie Miwa, Assistant Professor of Biology, Lehigh University
Dr. Audrey Ettinger, Assistant Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Program, Cedar Crest College
Projects 2016-2017
Participating Faculty:
Dr. Joseph Colosi, Associate Professor of Biology, DeSales University
Mr. Kelly Allen, Associate Professor of English, Northampton Community College
Dr. Derick Brown, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University
Dr. Arthur Kney, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lafayette College
Participating Faculty:
Dr. Michael Bertucci, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Moravian University
Dr. David Husic, Professor of Chemistry, Lafayette College
Dr. Francis Mayville, Associate Professor of Chemistry, DeSales University
Dr. Marianne Staretz, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Cedar Crest College
Dr. Sherri Young, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Muhlenberg College
Dr. Ned Heindel, Professor of Chemistry, Lehigh University
Participating Faculty:
Han Luo, Full Time Lecturer of Chinese, Lafayette College
Li Yang, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Lafayette College
Limei Shan, Professor of Practice of Chinese, Lehigh University
Participating Faculty:
Dr. Kate Ranieri, Assistant Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College
Ms. Julia Maserjian, Digital Scholarship Project Manager, Lehigh University
Projects 2015-2016
A new Research Methods course was offered by Dr. Sabrina Terrizzi at Moravian University during Fall 2015, which included both in-class and online learning modules developed in collaboration with Drs. Kaskowitz and Ruebeck. The course was designed to prepare students for a CBLR project that will be continued in the Marketing Research classes taught by Drs. Kaskowitz and Ruebeck in Spring 2016.
Participating Faculty:
Dr. Gary Kaskowitz, Associate Professor of Management, Moravian University
Dr. Christopher Ruebeck, Associate Professor of Economics, Lafayette College
Dr. Sabrina Terrizzi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Moravian University
Dr. John Sullivan and Ms. Elizabeth Ortiz offered a cross-campus, hybrid Media Literacy and Media and Society course during Fall 2015 where students collaborated between campuses to prepare for Media Literacy Week. The course was co-taught both online and in-person and was designed to prepare students for Dr. Brancato’s Media Industries course in Spring 2016.
Participating Faculty:
Dr. John Sullivan, Associate Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College
Dr. James Brancato, Professor of Communication, Cedar Crest College
Ms. Elizabeth Ortiz, Assistant Professor of Communication, Cedar Crest College
Faculty from four LVAIC institutions have created educational videos of laboratory instrumentation on their campuses for students and faculty from other institutions to utilize as hybrid instruction to promote research collaboration.
Participating Faculty:
Dr. Keri Colabroy, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Muhlenberg College
Dr. Sherri Young, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Muhlenberg College
Dr. Marsha Baar, Professor of Chemistry, Muhlenberg College
Dr. Steve Dunham, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Moravian University
Dr. Chris Jones, Associate Professor of Biology, Moravian University
Dr. Mark Snyder, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University
The faculty cohort created a digitized learning module outlining Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) that could be differentially embedded in courses or programs needing such instruction.
Participating Faculty:
Dr. Nancy L. King, Assistant Professor of Education, Cedar Crest College,
Dr. Judith Rance-Roney, Associate Professor of Education, DeSales University
Ms. Sally Richwine, Senior Lecturer, Muhlenberg College
Ms. Kim Rohrbach, Lecturer, Muhlenberg College
LVAIC Teagle Hybrid Learning Grant in the News
- 7th Annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference at Bryn Mawr
- Chronicle of Higher Education’s Future of Learning publication
- Hechinger Report on Higher Education
- Inside Higher Ed’s When Students Are Skeptics
- Ithaka S+R’s Faculty Collaboration and Technology in the Liberal Arts : Lessons from a Teagle Grant Program
- Telling the untold with the documentary storymaking minor
Resources for Digital Literacy
possibility that we may soon break free of the immutable “iron triangle” that has prevented higher education from increasing access, affordability, and quality simultaneously. But while we have seen advances in access and affordability, the 100-year history of technology use in education paints a rather bleak picture of the extent to which technology, in-and- of-itself, can lead to the kind of increases in learning outcomes that we seek. This presentation by MJ Bishop, PhD., Director, William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at University System of Maryland, traces the many lessons learned from that history and explores how changing the way we view technology’s role might finally help us achieve meaningful and sustainable change.
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