Integrative Learning Success Initiative

“Integrative learning” refers to course-delivery methods that facilitate the transfer of student knowledge between courses in which students are bundled. By integrating courses, faculty can help students interpret course content as extending beyond the confines of a single course.

Academic Affairs and the Center for Teaching and Learning co-sponsors the Integrative Learning Success Initiative (ILSI), which supports integrative-learning efforts at Austin Peay.

A stipend of $3,000 is paid to a team of at least two instructors who agree to bundle and integrate three courses that service incoming first-time freshmen in Fall 2013. In Spring 2013, selected teams are scheduled to participate in an integrative-teaching academy to learn more about different models and opportunities for integrating courses, and in Spring/Summer 2013, team members will work together to integrate their three courses for a pilot in Fall 2013.

Deadline for application submission was December 7, 2012.

Project Timeline
               

December 7, 2012:                        Application submitted

January 30, 2012:                          ILSI Teams selected for funding

Spring 2013:                                 Faculty Development for selected ILSI Teams

Spring/Summer 2013:                   Course Development by ILSI Teams

Fall 2013:                                      Pilot of integrated courses

Spring 2014:                                 Evaluation of Fall pilot

Compensation

A stipend of $3,000 is paid to a team of at least two instructors who bundle and integrate three courses that service incoming first-time freshmen in Fall 2013. The lead investigator has to be a full-time instructor or faculty member. One half of the stipend is paid upon selection; the other half upon completion of all aspects of the project: attending faculty development, developing the course, piloting the course, evaluating the project outcomes, and submitting a summative report of the results.

Fall 2013 ILSI Teams

APSU 1000 -- Cynthia Marsh

ART 1010 -- Cynthia Marsh

ART 1020 -- Ken Shipley

BIOL 1040/1041 -- Joseph Schiller

APSU 1000 -- Amy L. Thompson & Antonio Thompson

BIOL 1110 -- Amy L. Thompson

HIST 2010 -- Antonio Thompson

APSU 1000 -- Bonnie Hodge

MATH 1530 -- Matt Jones

COMM 1010 -- Mike Dunn

APSU 1000 (online) -- Melissa Conwell

ENGL 1010 (online) -- Pamela Magrans

HIST 2010 (online) -- Naomi Rendina

APSU 1000 -- Mike Dunn

COMM 1200 -- Mike Dunn

HIST 2020 -- Bary Bruster

APSU 1000 -- Kimberly G. Morrow

COMM 1010 -- Mike Dunn

ENGL 1010E -- Charla White-Major

ENGL 1010 -- Pamela Magrans

HIST 2010 (online) -- Naomi Rendina

ART 1030 (online) -- Christina Burawa