Presentations & Publications

June 21, 2024

Horane Diatta-Holgate of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence published a chapter on “Underrepresented Voices in Intercultural Competence” in the newly released compilation Current Perspectives on Intercultural and Global Competence edited by Darla K. Deardorff and Mizuho Tatebayashi.

April 12, 2024

KC Frye and Kuangchen Hsu from Notre Dame Learning's Office of Digital Learning recently teamed up with Brian Mulholland of the University's Department of Mathematics to present at the OLC Innovate 2024 Conference in Denver. Their talk, which highlighted Notre Dame's ASCEND program, was titled “Building Belonging: Creating a Sense of Belonging Among Incoming First-Year Students Through a Pre-College Online Learning Experience.”

May 18, 2023

Alex Ambrose of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence joined with Bo Pei, a postdoctoral researcher with ND Learning and the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, and Shawn Miller of the University’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry to present their study “Understanding the Landscape of Metacognition Skills by Performance Groups Within a Chemistry Course” during Indiana University’s 5th Annual International Learning Analytics Summit.

May 18, 2023

Alex Ambrose of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence joined with Bo Pei, a postdoctoral researcher with ND Learning and the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, to share a prototype of an exam analytics report designed to support assessment practices during Indiana University’s 5th Annual International Learning Analytics Summit.

August 31, 2022

In this qualitative study, Alex Ambrose of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and Arnon Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University explored insights of first-year students’ instructors and advisors into an early identification system aimed at detecting non-thriving students in the context of an all-campus first-year orientation course for undergraduates. Appeared in Journal of Learning Analytics.

July 11, 2022

Alex Ambrose of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence partnered with coauthors Rebecca Whelan and Simon Weaver of the University’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry to present an activity that teaches advanced undergraduate and first-semester chemistry graduate students to use R, a widely used programming language designed for data analysis and statistics. Appeared in Journal of Chemical Education.

July 01, 2022

Notre Dame Learning’s Alex Ambrose and Kevin Abbott along with Tal Soffer, Orly Klein-Latucha, Maya Usher, and Arnon Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University shared findings from three studies that shed light on hybrid flexible (HyFlex) courses—that is, multi-modal courses that combine online and on-campus components. Presented at The Future of Education International Conference .

December 24, 2021

Using Notre Dame Learning’s umbrella IRB and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) support services, Rachel Branco of the University’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry pursued this study that was published in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. If you are interested in this type of course-level scholar-practitioner work, contact our Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence.

November 11, 2021

Alex Ambrose of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and Jess Staggs, a research assistant working with Ambrose, investigated how changes made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic affected the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) scores of various classrooms at Notre Dame. Appeared in EduCAUSE Review.

November 01, 2021

In this paper, Notre Dame Learning’s Kuangchen Hsu, Alex Ambrose, and Andrew Craker along with Brian Mulholland and Sonja Mapes Szekelyhidi from the University’s Department of Mathematics describe the design and development of a formative assessment plan with a mastery-based grading approach to reimagine the purpose of assessment in transforming exams into learning experiences. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Conference.