Research study on a knowledge exchange network for exemplary teaching in Ontario higher education

The final section of the report, Moving Forward in Ontario, summarizes many of the outcomes of this research study as a set of Principles for Knowledge Exchange Network services, and a set of recommendations for next steps, including the following:. [...] For example, on the Teach the Earth portal for Geoscience faculty, a module on How Large is a Ton of Rock (Thinking About Rock Density) addresses the following topics: In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity, students calculate the volume and then edge length of a cube, and the diameter of a sphere, of a variety of rocks weighing a ton. [...] Social bookmarking and customized search engines could be applied by Ontario institutions to share the wisdom of our expert practitioners – an approach being used in the Knowledge Finder of the Commonwealth of Learning and in the custom search engine of the Professional. [...] We will return to the discussion of Needs and Opportunities in the next chapter, which considers scholarship in teaching and learning and the engagement of a sustaining community of teaching practice and scholarship. [...] For example, for a faculty member at an Ontario university to adopt an innovative teaching practice based on experience from a university in the U. K. would require more care in determining and documenting the contributing factors to the success of the innovation and more rigour in demonstrating the nature and extent of the success.