Business overview
Since its establishment in 1995, the University Consortium Kyoto has been promoting faculty development activities in the Kyoto region together with member schools as a systematic effort to help faculty improve and enhance their teaching content and methods.
Starting in 2019, we launched a new “Kyoto FD Exchange Meeting” as a forum for university faculty and staff to share their FD-related ideas and concerns and to interact on various FD-related themes, beyond the boundaries of their respective universities.
Event Outline
- subject
- Faculty and staff of universities and junior colleges
*Full-time or part-time, and length of employment does not matter
*Participation is open to both member and non-member schools - Participation fee
- free
- Sponsored by
- The Consortium of Universities, Kyoto
| 1st | |
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Let’s think together about the “quality of education” by discussing various themes such as teacher evaluation, IR, ICT utilization, class evaluation, learning support, active learning, and community collaboration. The first session will be held in a workshop format. |
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| schedule | Thursday, August 1, 2019 18:30-20:30 |
| venue | Campus Plaza Kyoto, 5th floor, Seminar Rooms 3 and 4 |
| 2nd time | |
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| Thinking about “learning achievement” Why don’t you think about “learning achievement” together with the other participants, from “why do we need to measure learning achievement in the first place” to everyday reports and tests? In small groups, you will be free to exchange opinions. You will bring what you want to hear about the efforts of other universities and what you can introduce about your own university, and interact with faculty and staff of other universities. |
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| schedule | Wednesday, November 13, 2019 18:30-20:30 Kyoto FD Exchange Meeting 20:30-20:50 Tea party |
| venue | Campus Plaza Kyoto 2nd floor hall |
| 3rd | |
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| “Understanding Rubrics from Scratch” We will invite Mr. Gary Tsuchimochi (Vice President and Professor of Kyoto University of Graduate Studies for Informatics / Director of the Center for Higher Education and Innovation) to give a lecture on rubrics. He will also touch on the “ICE Rubric”, which is an extension of rubrics. |
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| schedule | Saturday, February 22, 2020 13:30-16:30 Kyoto FD Networking 13:30- Opening and self-introductions 13:40-15:00 Lecture: “Rubrics – Is it possible to visualize learning outcomes?” 15:10-16:30 Group discussion |
| venue | Campus Plaza Kyoto 2nd floor hall |
Implementation Report
The third Kyoto FD exchange meeting was held on Saturday, February 22nd.
The third and final session of this year had the overall theme of “Understanding rubrics from scratch” and invited Gary Tsuchimochi (Vice President and Professor, Kyoto University of Information Graduate School of Information / Director of the Center for Higher Education and Learning Innovation) as the lecturer.
The lecture was titled “Rubrics – Is it possible to visualize learning outcomes?” and covered basic knowledge of rubrics, the difference between “evaluation” and “assessment”, the nature of evaluation using rubrics and its problems, and examples of using “potential evaluation”. In addition, a “scratch quiz” was practiced as an introduction to the flipped classroom method, using the pre-assignment as a subject. In the second half of the lecture, “ICE rubrics”, an advanced version of rubrics, was also mentioned, and he talked about how to use them and their effects based on his experience.
In the group discussion that followed the lecture, each group discussed “what they learned and did not understand about rubrics” and “how they can be useful in future classes”, and each group presented the contents of the discussion and shared them with the whole group. The lecturer also gave each group careful advice.
Thirty-four university faculty and staff members participated on the day. In the participant survey, the total number of people who answered “Satisfied” or “Somewhat Satisfied” was 96.0%, which was a high rating.
Participants commented, “It was very stimulating and interesting. I would like to study more to deepen my understanding.”, “I thought I understood rubrics to some extent, but I realized that I didn’t understand them correctly.”, and “It was a very meaningful training.”
Based on the opinions and comments received from everyone this year, we will consider planning an even more fulfilling exchange event for next year.
Once the details of the plan have been decided, we will announce them on our foundation’s website.
■Reports on past Kyoto FD exchange meetings can be viewed at the URL below.
▼1st session/Implementation report
https://www.consortium.or.jp/fd/31945
▼2nd session/Implementation report
https://www.consortium.or.jp/fd/31960
Contact Information
Consortium of Universities Kyoto, Public Interest Foundation FD Project Contact
TEL 075-353-9163 FAX 075-353-9101
Campus Plaza Kyoto, Nishinotoin-dori Shiokoji-sagaru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8216
*Business hours: Tuesday to Saturday 9:00-17:00 (excluding New Year holidays)
