1. What is the COESP and What are Our Plans?
The COESP is an idea that has been several years in the making but that officially started at the beginning of March this year when I agreed to be the first Director.  In those first 8 weeks, we have been developing our mission and values as guides for future decision-making.  we have also organized a visiting Science T&L Scholar from Sydney Australia who is coming in early May to work with us and participate in the COESP kick-off day on May 10th -- so we've been busy - in addition to teaching, grading and running our research programs.
John F. Dawson
Director

2. COESP
College of Biological Science Office of Educational Scholarship and Practice

3. Say what?
CO – E – S – P ?

4. Today’s Talk What is the COESP? Where is the COESP? Who is the COESP?
Mission, Values
Where is the COESP?
Who is the COESP?
Generating the Vision
Inputs and limits
Summary

5. Our Mission To Support and Promote Evidence-based practice
Outcomes Development & Assessment
Biology Higher Education Research
I have been involved in all of these since I started at Guelph in 2002.
There is a synergy here – The educational research I have done in the past has to do with evidence-based teaching practices.
Most recently, the research I have done and lead is heavily invoved with LO development and assessment.
So, it is through these last two that I have an appreciation and understanding of the modes and practices of higher educational research.
One of the factors here is how do you measure these actions?  But we'll be working on that.
We've got a great group of people on the steering committee who got to work right away and I am very pleased with our discussions.  Through those discussions, we idenitified some core values right away:

6. Our Values Inclusive Accessible Responsive Evidence-based
1. inclusive -- want to hear from everyone and to work with everyone
2. responsive -- people need to be heard and we must respond in a timely fashion
3. accessible --  responses have to be useful
4. evidence-based -- responses have to be based in research

7. Who is the COESP
We are US
Teaching
Collaborating & researching
Experiencing the same challenges

8. Who is the COESP Each is unique:
Research specialty
Courses we teach
Including those who think about and analyze
What we teach
How we teach
How students learn
Always been part of who we are

9. A place to be understood
Who is the COESP
We want a place for Teaching and Learning activities to come together – we VALUE this
Inward and outward place for CBS activities
Provide a focus, direction, and support
A place to be heard
A place to be understood
A place to find answers

10. Associate Dean Academic
Where do we fit in CBS?
Dean
Associate Dean Academic
COESP
UCC

11. Who is the COESP? Director Student Staff OpenEd Faculty
I’ve talked about who we are – we are us
Where we are – in the structure of CBS
But what about outside?

12. What’s out there?
COESP
PSEER
CSAHS

13. What’s going on in Ontario?

14. What’s going on in Canada?

15. Beyond Guelph Biology Offices are rare: Denmark?
Reaching out – Ontario
Working together
Queen’s NSERC lobbying
Cnd Soc for Molecular Biosciences – IUBMB
Establish Guelph as a leader

16. Generating Vision
Inputs:
Our needs
Our dreams
Resources

17. Resources $30,000 / year for 3 years People: Other resources Us
Steering Committee
Staff: Char
The Director (me!)
Other resources

18. Outcomes Development & Assessment
Common strategy to maintain relationships with students
beyond graduation
Measure outcomes
For internal reporting (IQAP)
For promotion / recruiting
For career development and networking
For fundraising / collaboration

19. Biology Higher Education Research
A Biology Education Research Hub
Invite those who are interested and want to do this kind of research
Share expertise and ideas
Share challenges
Start this summer

20. Evidence-based Practice
A CBS strategy to address teaching & learning challenges and needs
Web-site
Blogs
Workshops
Seminars
Research Hub (Aspire program)

21. Guelph Leadership Make resources available to others
Promote our efforts
Reward & Recognize Excellence
Coordinate:
Internal efforts for LEF, SOTL funding
External efforts for funding
and support

22. Valuing Teaching
Meet needs and challenges with solutions from higher education research
Demonstrate the value of scholarly teaching
While advancing biology higher education research
Performing and producing scholarly teaching research

23. Summary Who is the COESP? We are US Where is the COESP? Here!
What’s the mission? To Support and Promote
What are the COESP’s values?
Inclusive, accessible, responsive, evidence-based
What is the vision?
Grassroots values, growing research, leadership