Our Vision for Learning:
A campus deeply engaged with learning; an institution that promotes leadership through building character, scholarship, culture, and service; a university that dynamically transforms the lives of the students who come here.
Who We Are:

Our Mansfield University Focus on Learning Forum is committed to achieving our vision for engagement with learning. We are an open forum that includes students, faculty, and staff dedicated to the improvement of learning at Mansfield. Our work began in Spring 2003 with a charge from President Halstead and is continuing. We have built a learning model and action plan for Mansfield University. Our planning document (PDF format: 177k– Revised May 2004) may be downloaded.
Additional documents summarize our Learning Forum discussions and will periodically be posted here. The first document describes what we expect from our students. Future documents will describe our values as a community of learners and our shared expectations for members of the faculty and academic departments.

Learning Forum events for the Spring 2009 Semester will be held

every second Thrusday from 11:30 to 12:30

in Pinecrest 109 (The CATL Office).

Schedule of Topics:

January 15 (2:00 location TBA) - What's Next on Accountability and Assessment (Contact Jeanne Kagle for Powerpoint)
February 12 - Plugged-In Students (Handout; Meeting Summary Coming Soon)
March 12 - Information Overload
April 9 - The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Canceled

Monday Coffee Talks in the Employee Lounge (Monday 3:00-5:00, Spring 2009):

3/23 CATL: Plugged-In Students: How does technology affect how our students think and learn? (Handout)
3/30 Assessment: Baldrige Excellence in Higher Education - basic Q&A.
4/6 CATL: Strategies: How do I engage the Net-Generation learner?
4/13 Assessment: MU Institutional Outcomes: How might they apply to all of MU's constituents?
4/20 CATL: Concept Maps: What are they and how will they increase my students' learning? (Handout)
4/27 Assessment: How do I cut my grading time in half (or more??)

For more information, Contact Jeanne Kagle
 
 
 
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For more information, contact Jeanne Kagle at 570-662-4549 or jkagle@mansfield.edu