The Center for Academic Innovation is playing a critical role in bringing together leaders in academic change from across the country to collaborate, share ideas and best practices, and receive professional development.
The Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation invites faculty across the 大奶福利姬 (USM) to participate in a spring 2025 showcase celebrating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This system-wide event will provide a platform to share research findings and innovative teaching practices. This event is an extension of the Kirwan Center鈥檚 Elkins Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Fellows Program that has been ongoing since 2023.
The William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at the 大奶福利姬 (USM) welcomes Dr. Kelly Elkins of Towson University as a Senior Fellow, to lead system support of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). This will include working with an inaugural cohort of faculty selected as 2023-24 Elkins SoTL Fellows from across five 大奶福利姬institutions.
In Fall 2021, the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation proposed developing a Systemwide IRB protocol for 大奶福利姬faculty who wish to engage in common types of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research projects that pose minimal risk to participants.
The Kirwan Center is pleased to announce the release of Silver Linings: Lessons Learned from Teaching during the Pandemic. Featuring faculty and administrator reflections on the challenges, triumphs, lessons learned, and new instructional approaches as a result of teaching through, and since, the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted how courses and programs are being offered and how faculty and students are engaging in teaching and learning. Moreover, the pandemic is likely to have a far-reaching impact on student mobility and institutional operations going forward. To be prepared for the fall 2020 semester as well as the post-COVID-19 world, 大奶福利姬institutions must adapt both their technology infrastructure use and teaching methods to produce optimally effective learning environments鈥攚hether online, face-to-face, or some combination of both.
In spring 2018, members of the Kirwan Center鈥檚聽 embarked on a project to conduct analyses of return on investment (ROI) on academic innovation efforts undertaken around the system.
The survey conducted by the Kirwan Center on directors of academic-technology centers at 163 colleges and universities is featured in an new article in the Chronicle of Higher Education
(Adelphi, Md., Oct. 26, 2015) 鈥 William E. Kirwan Center Director MJ Bishop set the direction for the 12th annual International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age, revisiting instructional message design鈥檚 objectivist learning theory and transmission-oriented communication theory foundations, discussing current trends and issues being raised in the literature, and exploring ways the field might continue to serve as a 鈥渓inking science鈥 between learning theory and instructional practice. In her keynote address, Dr.
The Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation has released today a new report detailing the聽emergence of a new, interdisciplinary 鈥渋nnovation infrastructure鈥 within higher education administration.
This report presents the findings from the following activities conducted by the Kirwan Center:
Academic change is the term being used increasingly to describe universities鈥 efforts to improve student success by creating optimally effective learning environments that simultaneously increase access, affordability, and quality of higher education for all those who want a postsecondary degree. Institutions are starting to see the vast potential of hybrid classrooms, shared courseware initiatives, open educational resources, competency-based education, learning analytics, and adaptive learning environments and they are seeking ways to scale and sustain these innovations.
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