Project Team
Mariam Mufti, Political Science
Wayne Chang, Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business
Katherine Lithgow, Centre for Teaching Excellence
Tracy Hilpert, School of Accounting and Finance
Narveen Jandu, School of Public Health Sciences
Elena Neiterman, School of Public Health Sciences
Mary Robinson, Faculty of Engineering
Steffanie Scott, Geography and Environmental Management
Diane Williams, School of Public Health Sciences
Brendan Wylie-Toal, Green House Social Impact Incubator
Jennifer Yessis, School of Public Health Sciences
Project Summary
This project will develop a ‘how-to’ toolkit for instructors interested in integrating a UW adaptation of the University of Edinburgh’s Student-Led Independently-Created Courses (SLICCs) framework into courses and to help students become effective self-directed, life-long learners. The project supports UW’s strategic plan ‘Developing Talent for a Complex Future’, aligns with the Future Ready Talent Framework, and builds on recommendations from a previously-funded LITE Grant Project. That project involved piloting the SLICC framework into UW courses, determining the impact SLICCs on students’ development of life-long skills, and identifying adaptations to the SLICC framework for the UW context. The project found that many students recognized the benefits of the SLICC framework, but many remained unclear about the purpose of SLICCs and struggled with implementation and self-assessment; i.e., they expected to ‘be taught’. Furthermore, the project found that instructors struggled with the implementation of the SLICCs framework; i.e., they expected to teach.
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