About WikiTuningHigherEd

The Project: Creation of a Tuning Wiki

AAC&U Faculty Collaboratives, Faculty Fellows Project (Anliker 2015)

A wiki, by its very nature, is a collection of documents (pages, wikis, sub-wikis) that are contributed and refined in an online environment by numerous authors. This project proposes to create a tuning wiki that will allow a variety of higher education stakeholders (faculty, students, employers and representatives of graduate programs, business groups, professional organizations, etc.) to collaboratively produce a repository of tuning “documents” for many disciplines.

This tuning wiki will include information that is part of a traditional approach to tuning, but it will also include information that I have referred to as “Beyond Tuning” or “Tuning 2.0” ideas. The information ultimately available on the site should be useful to college-level faculty and administrators, but it should also be useful to high school teachers, students (and parents of students) who are considering college and their career options, and other stakeholders (employers, etc.)

Preliminary plans for content to be provided/input by faculty collaborators

• Introduction to the subject area and the role of the discipline in other degree programs

• Discipline-specific competencies, corresponding learning outcomes, example assignments and assessments

• Generic competencies (the competencies that are not specific to a discipline, but that are part of the learning that goes on within coursework in a discipline)

• What are the prerequisite skills for a person pursuing a degree in the discipline?

• What would the day in the life of a student in the discipline look like? Would they be in the classroom, library, lab or field? Would they be collecting data, analyzing written materials, reading, writing or collaborating? What is “homework” in the discipline? How are students typically evaluated?

• What is research or scholarly activity in the discipline? What does it look like? Where and how is it generally carried out?

Assessment

In addition to creating the tuning wiki, the project will also study the utility of the wiki as a tool for tuning and as a resource for stakeholders. Assessment of the project will include surveys of contributors and feedback from visitors to the site who were not contributors. “tuning experts” will be asked to evaluate the quality of information assembled in the wiki and to compare it to the products of traditional tuning.


This website is part of a project that is being carried out by Keith S. Anliker, Senior Lecturer of Chemistry and Director of Laboratory and Curriculum Support, in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Keith is working as a faculty fellow with the Faculty Collaboratives Project of the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). This project is supported in part by funding from Lumina Foundation.

AAC&U Faculty Collaboratives

Faculty Fellows Press Release


What you will find here in the future:

• How to use this information.

• Tips for comparing information across disciplines.

• Opportunities to engage in tuning via wiki as a faculty member, student, employer or other stakeholder.

 

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