Paul, I love the idea and your proposal. It will certainly interest faculty members who are in education. Faculty members who have grants to do their research normally are required to disseminate their research results. The usual ways of publishing through journals and presenting at conferences are generally not good enough nowadays to satisfy many of the grant agencies. Disiminating and sharing through a community like this one can be very desirable and effective. Also as you mentioned, it is not only good for the researchers, it is also valuble for practitioners. Needless to say, there would be a good flow of energy (using the old New Age term) that could generate a virtuous circle and end up benefiting both researchers and practitioners.
I like your proposal of surveying the Ed research at SFU specifically and BC post secondary sector in general to start with. You and Sylvia know many people and also have the power of persuasion. You can also spread the word and get people to come here and show case their research works.
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Paul, I love the idea and your proposal. It will certainly interest faculty members who are in education. Faculty members who have grants to do their research normally are required to disseminate their research results. The usual ways of publishing through journals and presenting at conferences are generally not good enough nowadays to satisfy many of the grant agencies. Disiminating and sharing through a community like this one can be very desirable and effective. Also as you mentioned, it is not only good for the researchers, it is also valuble for practitioners. Needless to say, there would be a good flow of energy (using the old New Age term) that could generate a virtuous circle and end up benefiting both researchers and practitioners.
I like your proposal of surveying the Ed research at SFU specifically and BC post secondary sector in general to start with. You and Sylvia know many people and also have the power of persuasion. You can also spread the word and get people to come here and show case their research works.
I like your proposal of surveying the Ed research at SFU specifically and BC post secondary sector in general to start with. You and Sylvia know many people and also have the power of persuasion. You can also spread the word and get people to come here and show case their research works.
Related to Stephanie's proposal on sharing resources, I'm hoping to set up a similar space for the new faculty members at Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS). FHS is a brand new Faculty at SFU. All the faculty members coming in this fall will be new. There are ten of them. In my conversation with their Associate Dean, Charmaine Dean, she expressed the importance of getting the new faculties to help each other through sharing ideas, tips, and resources since they have no old people to turn to within their Faculty. This trigered my idea of gathering them here. I'm thinking it'd be an ideal community place for them to share if we can get them started.
Stephanie and I are preparing a workshop on accessing teaching resources at SFU for these new faculty member on Sept 14. I'm hoping that we can introduce this place to them and get them started at the workshop.
How do you like the idea? What is the best way to get things prepared here before we give the workshop?
Stephanie and I are preparing a workshop on accessing teaching resources at SFU for these new faculty member on Sept 14. I'm hoping that we can introduce this place to them and get them started at the workshop.
How do you like the idea? What is the best way to get things prepared here before we give the workshop?
Sylvia, you asked:
"How do we serve the needs of the SFU community first (as outlined in our project goals), yet at the same time present SCoPE as an inclusive community -- extending community activities and invitations for participation to an international audience.
How do we achieve both?
What are the implications for site design?"
How do we achieve both? I'd say just do it, using Liz's favourite quote. In principle we want to serve the SFU community first, but in practice, there is nothing to stop us doing both at the same time - serving SFU community and engaging a wider community. As we say in Chinese - walking with both legs. The two goals lend well to each other. I believe the more open we are, the more people we will get, and the better we'll be able to serve both.
I said too much on this already. I'll stop repeating myself.
"How do we serve the needs of the SFU community first (as outlined in our project goals), yet at the same time present SCoPE as an inclusive community -- extending community activities and invitations for participation to an international audience.
How do we achieve both?
What are the implications for site design?"
How do we achieve both? I'd say just do it, using Liz's favourite quote. In principle we want to serve the SFU community first, but in practice, there is nothing to stop us doing both at the same time - serving SFU community and engaging a wider community. As we say in Chinese - walking with both legs. The two goals lend well to each other. I believe the more open we are, the more people we will get, and the better we'll be able to serve both.
I said too much on this already. I'll stop repeating myself.
Related to Stephanie's proposal on sharing resources, I'm hoping to set up a similar space for the new faculty members at Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS). FHS is a brand new Faculty at SFU. All the faculty members coming in this fall will be new. There are ten of them. In my conversation with their Associate Dean, Charmaine Dean, she expressed the importance of getting the new faculties to help each other through sharing ideas, tips, and resources since they have no old people to turn to within their Faculty. This trigered my idea of gathering them here. I'm thinking it'd be an ideal community place for them to share if we can get them started.
Stephanie and I are preparing a workshop on accessing teaching resources at SFU for these new faculty member on Sept 14. I'm hoping that we can introduce this place to them and get them started at the workshop.
How do you like the idea? What is the best way to get things prepared here before we give the workshop?
Stephanie and I are preparing a workshop on accessing teaching resources at SFU for these new faculty member on Sept 14. I'm hoping that we can introduce this place to them and get them started at the workshop.
How do you like the idea? What is the best way to get things prepared here before we give the workshop?