Happy February, everyone!
We'd like to share our February Meaningful Inquiry workshops. These are free workshops, and all are welcome – please feel free to forward these to other colleagues, including students, librarians, and instructors in other disciplines, at your institutions. We hope you'll consider joining us! (Note: These workshops will not be recorded – it's possible that they will be offered again in the summer or in the fall semester.)
Who Are Today's Students? Characteristics and Trends
February 11, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm (Eastern)
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This workshop will be led by Meaningful Inquiry alumna, Dr. Amy Collins, Assistant Professor and Teaching & Learning Scholar in the Center for Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota Rochester.
Have you ever asked yourself, "What is going on with students these days?" In this session, we will review the latest research findings on student characteristics in this post-COVID learning environment in higher education. We will cover how the pandemic learning disruption impacted students' readiness for higher education. This session will also touch on current trends in students' attitudes towards education and offer possible approaches for working with students effectively. The session will include tips for those who teach and work with students. After attending this session, participants will be able to (1) Identify some of the key impacts of the pandemic learning disruption on students, (2) discuss and reflect on emerging research findings about effectively supporting student success, and (3) develop an idea to enact at least one new strategy in working with students.
Disability-Informed Approaches to Research
February 18, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm (Eastern)
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This workshop will be led by Kestrel Anderson, who is a Writing Across the Curriculum Graduate Consultant at The Ohio State University.
Disabled researchers bring unique perspectives to conducting research, including library-based research. How can we approach researching and writing with sources-in both instruction and practice-through a disability-informed perspective? How do we develop and support multiple ways of approaching and accessing information? When common practices don't work for us and our students, how do we adapt and try something new? This virtual workshop, a collaboration between the University Libraries and the Writing Across the Curriculum team, will explore how disability studies can offer new strategies and insights to working with sources and increasing information literacy.
This workshop is aimed at course instructors, graduate teaching associates, and librarians. All are welcome!
Motivating through Meaningful Research Assignments
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12:00-1:00 (Eastern)
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When we find our work to be meaningful, we are often more motivated to tackle that work...this also true for students and their academic work! In this workshop, we will discuss key elements of motivation as they relate to student learning and consider how we can help students finding meaning in their academic work.
Amanda L. Folk, PhD, MTS, MLIS
[she, her, hers]
Associate Professor
Head, Teaching & Learning
The Ohio State University
University Libraries Teaching & Learning Department
221A Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210
614-247-6057 Office
folk.68@osu.edu library.osu.edu
In general, I work from 6:30 AM – 3 PM Monday through Friday, and am on campus occasionally.
The Ohio State University occupies is the ancestral and contemporary territory of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe and Cherokee peoples. Specifically, the university resides on land ceded in the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville and the forced removal of tribes through the Indian Removal Act of 1830.