Tag Archives: ELLI

ELLI Senior Benchmark Project gets Underway!

We’ve been using the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) with students for many campus learning projects since 2013, and we’ve gotten some interesting and useful insights as a result. The most current (and perhaps final) project in the series is … Continue reading

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Planned ELLI Senior Benchmarking Project + Resilience

ELLI, the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory, is a measure of students’ lifelong learning attributes:  resilience, changing & learning, creativity, strategic awareness, learning relationships, critical curiosity, and meaning making. I’ve been working on this campus project with my students and other … Continue reading

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Finishing up a Year of Mindfulness with Faculty

Below is a posting I wrote for a weekly writing site called Slice of Life I am posting it here, too, as it is a nice wrap-up to the year’s activities with mindfulness. From my Slice of Life reflections Starting … Continue reading

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Wrapping up SoTL Projects for a Bit…

Canvas is coming as our new course management system which means I will be busy for the next year or so helping to get people’s ANGEL content migrated and converted and then the faculty trained on how to use Canvas … Continue reading

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Lifelong Learning (ELLI) Project Updates

This fall, I had multiple lifelong learning projects underway on campus: Benchmarking – 189 first-year students in Math 021, ENGL 15, PSU 008, and LL ED 005 took ELLI (Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory) in August to provide benchmark data for … Continue reading

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Fall Projects Update

The semester got off to a bang with several major projects underway!!! Thanks to the many faculty partners who made all of these projects possible! Please let me know if I inadvertently left your name out – Apologies and I … Continue reading

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Incorporating SEL and Lifelong Learning in the Reading Course

I’ve incorporated lifelong learning practices for 3 years into my college reading course and each time, we’ve seen statistically significant changes in lifelong learning dimensions (ELLI) for our students (Shaffer, Eshbach, & Santiago-Blay, 2015) – now after attending the social-emotional … Continue reading

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Getting Ready: Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) at Berkeley

Just gathering some background before going to the Greater Good Science Center’s Summer Institute on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators June 26-July 1, 2015. Feeling lucky!

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Infographic of Current Projects

I can’t say I would recommend this infographic tool by venngage – in order to actually get your graphic, you have to purchase a premium account for 9.95 as an auto-recurring payment…. ooooh no! I’ll keep looking – stay tuned… … Continue reading

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ELLI Updates

A big shout out to Vicky, Keira, and Zoe from the UK at VitalPartnerships!! I’ve been talking with faculty at Cornell, Cal State Fullerton, and other institutions in the US about how we used ELLI last year and it has … Continue reading

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Faculty Professional Development Model

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk to our e-Education Council about faculty professional development (PD) at our campus, specifically about the lifelong learning (ELLI) project which started last summer and continues into the current fall pilot. As I thought … Continue reading

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Effective Lifelong Learning Event

On July 30-31, 2013, 27 faculty and staff members from six campuses (and one from Elizabethtown College) attended a very successful two-day training event, “Helping Students Become Lifelong Learners.” See details of the event. Participants who attended both days of … Continue reading

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Center for Online Innovation in Learning (COIL) Research Innovation Grants (RIG)

PSU’s new Center for Online Innovation in Learning announced a new call for grants – Research Innovation Grants (RIG) and we’ve put together a local team that is going for one!! We hope to submit by Friday and find out … Continue reading

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Combining Retention, Student Support, Learning Analytics in a College Reading Course

Project for LAK 13 – MOOC with George Siemens SP 2013 Recording – https://meeting.psu.edu/p5xe3ht92go/ Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) + Reflection + LA + College Reading Course Thanks to Simon Buckingham Shum,(Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, UK) who … Continue reading

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