Sharing the Work of our Program

E-Portfolios as an Integral Scholarship Tool for the Human Biology Program

The Scholarly and Reflective Work of our Faculty Human Biology faculty share the purposeful design and implementation of their courses, identify and assess strategies for helping students achieve the program's core competencies, and make their teaching visible to the Human Biology Program participants. The faculty also reflect upon how the development activities support their teaching within the program and within their home departments. The Teaching Transformation of Jane McLeod, Human Biology Faculty Fellow (pdf)

The Scholarly and Reflective Work of our Students Using individual and team e-portfolios, Human Biology students present themselves in unique, informative, and innovative ways to communities of learning within the Human Biology Program and university, to potential employers, and to graduate and professional degree programs. Students present evidence of their achievement and progress in the Human Biology Program competencies of scientific inquiry, interdisciplinary thinking, critical analysis, and interpersonal communication. Furthermore, creative and reflective opportunities allow students to provide coherence to their personal and academic choices and experiences.

The Scholarly and Reflective Work of our Program Facilitators Program facilitators use e-portfolios to document the unique student learning and faculty development occurring in the program and to provide a visible, coherent demonstration of the program's goals, assessments, and activities. Students' e-portfolios are used as a longitudinal assessment tool to evaluate each student's achievement of deeper learning, intellectual and ethical development, and a greater sense of self and identity. Drawing upon both the student and faculty e-portfolios, lessons learned from the classroom are incorporated into faculty development activities. Faculty electronic course portfolios and the program e-portfolio make the Human Biology teaching methods transparent to communities outside the Program including IUB and other higher education institutions.

Campus Conversations

Harold T. (Ted) Hammel Distinguished Lecture in Human Biology To encourage interdisciplinary campus conversations examining the human condition, the Human Biology Program hosts an annual lecture in which visiting faculty discuss the social, cultural, historical, and ethical complexities of their biological research. These lectures also inform the teaching, learning and curriculum of the Human Biology Program.

Flyer for Donald Jackson's March 2006 Lecture Jackson, Donald. 23 March 2006. "Living Without Oxygen: What Can Animals Teach Us?" HT Hammel Distinguished Lecture in Human Biology, Indiana University Bloomington. Flyer for Dr. Jackson's March 2006 lecture (pdf)

Flyer for H. Craig Heller's March 2005 Lecture Heller, Craig. 25 March 2005. "35 years of Human Biology at Stanford: From Radical Idea to One of the Most Popular Undergraduate Degree Programs." Presentation (.ppt) available at http://www.indiana.edu/~humbio/development.html. Flyer for Dr. Heller's March 2005 Lecture (pdf)

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Bloomington SOTL at IUB supports conversations among the campus' faculty about inquiry into faculty teaching practices and their impact on student learning. Presenters include campus faculty as well as invited speakers. Whitney Schlegel, Director of the Human Biology Program and Associate Professor of Biology, spoke at SOTL in late 2005 about the implementation and effectiveness of key Human Biology pedagogies of case-based and team-based learning for supporting student learning. Presentation citation: Schlegel, Whitney. November 2005. "Turning a Disciplinary Lens to Teaching and Learning Inquiry: Innovations in Testing." Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Featured Presentation.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation [CIC] The Committee on Institutional Cooperation is an academic collaboration among twelve teaching and research universities from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Of particular interest to the Human Biology Program is the CIC's work focused on national leadership and the sharing of unique courses and programs. The Human Biology Program shared its unique curriculum and pedagogies at the annual CIC meeting in 2005. Presentation citation: Schlegel, Whitney. October 2005. "An Integrative Undergraduate Degree Program in Human Biology." Committee on Institutional Cooperation [CIC] Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN. Presentation.

National and International Conversations

American Association of Colleges and Universities Integrative Learning: Creating Opportunities to Connect Network for Academic Renewal Conference The Integrative Learning Conference is a collaboration between AAC&U and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to foster conversations about practices which engage students in their learning across disciplines, through time, and through relating knowledge to practice. The Human Biology Program gave a presentation at the 2005 AAC&U Integrative Learning Conference describing the program structures and faculty development activities which supported the creation of the integrative Human Biology Curriculum. These activities included the Human Biology seminar and lecture series and the annual Summer Institute for Human Biology faculty which introduced faculty to integrative thinking and teaching strategies. Presentation citation: Schlegel, Whitney and Katherine Kearns. October 2005. "Campus Conversations Provide Leadership for an Integrative Curriculum." American Association of Colleges and Universities and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, Integrative Learning Conference, Denver, CO. Session Presentation. AAC&U 2005 Integrative Learning Conference Program (pdf) AAC&U 2005 Integrative Learning Conference Human Biology Abstract (pdf) AAC&U 2005 Integrative Learning Conference Human Biology Presentation (ppt)

Assessment Institute in Indianapolis The Assessment Institute of Indianapolis offers opportunities for faculty and administrators to observe and apply assessment techniques to a variety of higher education issues such as student learning, faculty development, and program effectiveness. The Human Biology Program has submitted a proposal to present their work at the 2006 Assessment Institute about e-portfolios as a program-wide assessment tool. Presentation citation: Whitney Schlegel, Katherine Kearns, and Leslie Hobbs-Ramsey. October 2006. "E-portfolios as an Integral Scholarship Tool of the Human Biology Program at Indiana University Bloomington." Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, workshop. 2006 Conference Paper (pdf)

International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2006 conference poster International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ISSOTL promotes scholarly inquiry into and conversations about the effectiveness of our disciplinary teaching practices for supporting student learning. The Human Biology Program presented a poster at the 2005 ISSOTL conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada about the theory, research, and faculty development practices that fostered the development of the integrative Human Biology Curriculum. The poster describes the structure, core student competencies, key pedagogies, and predicted outcomes and assessments of the Human Biology Curriculum. Poster Citation: Whitney Schlegel, Vivian Halloran, Frederika Kaestle, Jane Mcleod, Joseph Near, Phillip Quirk, Georgia Strange, Michael Wade, Ross Veatch-Peterson. October 2005. "Putting Theory and Research into Practice in the Development of an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Major in Human Biology." International Society for The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Poster Presentation. ISSOTL 2005 Participant Abstracts (pdf) ISSOTL 2005 Human Biology Poster (ppt)