Congratulations to Professor Ali Shiri on his TLEF Grant of $91,406 to support his project entitled Development of a Learning Analytics Application to Support Online Teaching and Learning at the University of Alberta.
The objective of this project is to investigate, develop, evaluate and implement a learning analytics software application for the eClass learning management system. This application will support instructors in monitoring their students' online learning activities, interaction and performance and will facilitate the provision of personalized and enhanced advice to students. It will also provide students with new visual and analytical tools and opportunities to regularly manage their learning activities and interactions in order to be able to compare their performance with their peers in an ongoing and real time manner. The project will have direct impact on and implications for all instructors and students on campus. This project will take an innovative approach by making effective use of learners' data and their context held in eClass to provide new insight into teaching and learning in online learning management systems.
Congratulations to Jennifer Branch-Mueller, Associate Professor, and Carol Tonhauser, Educational Developer, (along with their colleague Martine Pellerin, Associate Professor, from Campus Saint-Jean) on their TLEF Grant of $87,156 to support their project entitled ePortfolios: Making Teaching and Learning Visible.
This research project will conduct a needs assessment of key stakeholders within the University of Alberta to better understand their unique program requirements and to build an ePortfolio that is customizable, personalizable, and easy to use. The project will also build a website and provide workshops for key stakeholders on using ePortfolios to make teaching and learning visible. This will include examples of integrating attributes into student learning outcomes and examining how ePortfolios can be created and used to gather evidence of learning. The completion of this ePortfolio project will help the University of Alberta become a leader in mapping graduate (and undergraduate) attributes, in authentic assessment, and will provide departments, faculties and the University of Alberta with student learning outcome data that can be used for program quality assessment and also for outreach to prospective students, employers, government agencies and the citizens of Alberta and Canada.
More Information about TLEF
In direct support of Dare to Discover: A Vision for a Great University and the learning, discovery and citizenship cornerstones, the TLEF has been created to improve teaching and learning effectiveness. Applications are invited from all University of Alberta instructors who seek innovative ways of creating exceptional learning experiences and environments. It is anticipated that this fund will support a diverse range of initiatives specifically focused on creating exceptional and life changing university experiences for students.
For rest of this year's winners, please see https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/grants/tlef