Knowledge Media Lab (KML): Mission

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Knowledge Media Lab (KML) Mission

• The Carnegie Foundations KML helps institutions
  and faculty take advantage of the growing power
  of emerging technologies and new media to turn
  the knowledge implicit in effective teaching into
  ideas, theories, and resources that can be used
  widely in a variety of situations.

http//www.carnegiefoundation.org/KML
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning(SoTL)

• Making teaching practice visible and public
• Solicit it critical review
• Learn from and build on each others work

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The Work of Knowledge Media Lab

• Devise new means of conveying facultys teaching
  knowledge and experience by creating models and
  formats (e.g., multimedia-enhanced eportfolios).
• Develop tools and resources that enable faculty
  to carry out this work more easily and
  effectively.
• Build online multimedia knowledge-repositories
  and forums in which faculty can examine,
  articulate, and share their ideas and practice.

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CF KML Partners
Implementation/Research
SoTL/Network
EPAC
AAHE
Hewlett Foundation
Visible Knowledge Project/ Georgetown University
Stanford/Stanford Center for Innovations in
Learning
Faculty Innovative Profiles Project/Vanderbilt
University
CSU Monterey Bay
University of Maryland
National Writing Project
Mills College
University of Waterloo
Tool Building/Dissemination
Open Pedagogical Content
MIT OKI/SAKAI
MIT Open CourseWare
Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI)
MERLOT
Foothill College/SOPHIA
MIT Media Lab
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The Carnegie Academy for theScholarship of
Teaching and Learning (CASTL)

• Foster significant, long-lasting learning for all
  students
• Enhance the practice and profession of teaching
• Bring to faculty members work as teachers the
  recognition reward afforded other forms of
  scholarly work

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Interdisciplinary Community of Practice and
Reflection
Biological Sciences Business Chemistry Communicati
on Economics Education Engineering English Foreign
Languages Health Sciences History Interdisciplina
ry Studies
Law Literature Mathematics Performing
Arts Philosophy Physics Political
Science Psychology Religious Studies Sociology Tea
cher Education Theology
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How can we successfully build a community of
practice and reflection across disciplines?

• Use a common language/terminology (but, can we
  find one?)
• Take advantage of informal conversations and
  communications
• Use powerful metaphors for teaching and student
  learning
• Make implicit knowledge in practice and research
  not just visible but also easy to comprehend and
  transfer (e.g., using multimedia-enhanced
  eportfolio)

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Key Challenges

• Accessibility vs. Shareability
• Technical and intellectual barriers
• Time efficiency
• Readability of multimedia-enhanced
  representations
• Lack of support/guidance for the intellectual
  development processes

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Needs for the SoTL Support Tools

• Identify and select materials that reflect all
  dimensions of their teaching
• Prompt further analysis and reflection
• Organize their materials and reflections into
  succinct, engaging, and compelling
  representations
• Build online learning spaces to share SoTL work
  and generate collective knowledge as communities
  of practice and reflection

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A Major Breakthrough KEEP Toolkit

• The KEEP Toolkit enables non-technical teachers
  and students to examine, select and organize
  teaching and learning objects and transform them
  into visually appealing and intellectually
  engaging knowledge representations.

Early CASTL Scholars Snapshots
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KEEP Toolkit(will be compliant with the
OKI/SAKAI/OSPI standards)

• Select and organize teaching and learning
  materials
• Prompt analysis and reflection
• Transform materials and reflections into
  compelling and engaging representations
• Share ideas for peer-review, assessment, and
  collective knowledge building
• Simplify the technical tasks and facilitate the
  evolving intellectual processes

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The KEEP Toolkit provides frameworks and prompts
through flexibly-designed organizational
templates

• SoTL Project Snapshot Course Transformation
  Class Anatomy

Early CASTL Scholars Snapshots
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Making Pedagogical Knowledge Transferable,
Appealing, and Engaging to Your Audience

• Use snapshots as mirrors, lenses and windows
• Barbara Gayle (Faculty, University of Portland)
  video
• John Belcher (Faculty, MIT)
• AAHE/CASTL Campus Program (Collaborative Inquiry
  VKP Cluster)
• Hewlett Foundation
• Carnegie Initiative on Doctorate
• California State University at Monterey Bay
  (Learning Portfolios eg.1, eg.2, eg.3)
• Document and share developmental transformation
  processes
• CASTL Higher Education Program

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Trinity of Open Education
Open Platform Tools
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Pedagogical Knowledge
Open Knowledge of Teaching and Learning (electroni
c portfolio, blog, wiki, etc.)
Educational Contents
Open CourseWare, MERLOT, etc.
uPortal
SAKAI Tools
OSPI
Others
KEEP
LMSs Tools
OKI/SAKAI/IMS Standards
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Contact Information

• Toru Iiyoshi, Senior Scholar Director of
  Knowledge Media Lab
• iiyoshi_at_carnegiefoundation.org
• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
  Teaching
• 51 Vista Lane, Stanford CA 94305-8703