Teaching
Teaching
Graduate Supervision & Examination
“Serving as a supervisor, mentor and guide for the learning and development of talented new scholars in my discipline and profession is the most satisfying part of being a professor in education.”
– Michele Jacobsen, PhD
Michele Jacobsen’s graduate supervision practice is sharply focused on developing relational trust (Jacobsen, Friesen & Becker, 2021) and sponsoring student success as researchers and teachers. The quality of Jacobsen’s supervision and mentorship has been recognized with several Teaching Excellence Awards for Graduate Supervision, Teaching and Leadership. She brings advanced experience and expertise in supporting graduate students’ engagement in a range of educational research methodologies, techniques & theories, from change oriented design-based research, to interpretive-hermeneutic inquiry, to experimental and correlational designs, to using action research and case study research methodologies. As part of her funded program of research, Jacobsen mentors graduate students in diverse research methods (i.e., analysis and exploration, collaborative design and implementation, classroom observations, interviews, online survey development, testing, data analysis, report writing, presentation skills, and so on), and in co-authoring peer reviewed publications and book chapters, and co-presenting conference papers and presentations. Jacobsen supports her students in attracting competitive funding, awards and distinctions that further their own career goals and also bring distinction to the School and the University.
Supervision Completions
1
Post Doctoral Scholar
46
Doctoral Supervisory Committees
17
Master of Education, Capstone Projects
23
Doctoral Student Supervision and Dissertations
40
Doctoral Examination Committees
13
Master of Education – Course Based
10
Masters Student Supervision and Theses
24
Masters Theses Exam Committees
22
Master of Education, Capstone Committees
Mentoring For Diverse Careers
Mentoring Students for Diverse Career Paths. Jacobsen’s mentoring relationships and support of graduate students’ research and career trajectories extends well past convocation. Graduate students bring diverse aspirations and career goals; some want to pursue academic careers in post-secondary, and others aim for professional and research careers in health care, libraries, and the education system. In all cases, Michele cultivates strong research focused relationships with students to understand their goals and aspirations, and to inform and tailor her graduate supervision and mentoring approach to align with their diverse needs. Given their advanced skills as researchers and teachers, Jacobsen’s former doctoral students have been hired as academic staff at several post-secondary institutions. Diverse career paths taken by my doctoral and masters student graduates:
- Six in Tenure track positions in universities
Eleven in Research/leadership/teaching/design positions in post-secondary
Two in senior leadership roles in Health Care
Seven as senior leaders in schools, school jurisdictions and the Ministry of Education
Faculty Development
Jacobsen is leading online professional development and an online community of practice aimed at improving the quality of graduate supervision and practice in Canada (QGS MOOC).
- Quality Graduate Supervision MOOC: University of Calgary & Athabasca University, University of Lethbridge, University of Regina, Brandon University and Queens University, Sep 27 – Nov 14, 2021 (n=81)
Quality Graduate Supervision MOOC, University of Calgary & Athabasca University, Oct 26 – Dec 21, 2020 (n=55)
Quality Graduate Supervision MOOC, University of Calgary, February 10 – March 22, 2020 (n=107)
Quality Graduate Supervision miniMOOC, University of Calgary, March – April 2017 (n=24)
Graduate And Undergraduate Teaching
Jacobsen’s design of learning experiences and teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses is directly informed by her research on learning and technology. Jacobsen’s design-based and case study research on learning, whether carried out in a middle school, high school or in post-secondary, is directly related to her on-campus / blended / online course designs and teaching in the B.Ed. program as well as her graduate teaching in educational technology and the learning sciences. In creating conditions for learning, Jacobsen’s emphasis is on knowledge building and intellectual engagement, participatory pedagogies and collaborative design work in the discipline.
Graduate
EDER 700AB – Doctoral Seminar for First Year Students
EDER 610/701.05 – Case Study Research in Education
EDER 701.07 – Design Based Research Doctoral Research Seminar, multiple sections
EDER 708 – Collaboratory of Practice II
EDER 771 – Advanced Concepts in Educational Technology PHD Seminar
EDER 779.01 – Advanced Concepts in Educational Technology EDD Seminar, multiple sections
EDER 779.02 – Inquiry and Technology, EDD Learning Sciences Specialization Seminar, multiple sections
EDER 600 – Educational Research Methodology
EDER 606 – Writing Educational Research
EDER 678.67 – Interdisciplinary Learning and Technology (Leading and Learning in Digital Age Grad Cert)
EDER 671 – Conceptualizing Educational Technology
EDER 679.02 – Computer Based Learning I
EDER 679.12 – Computer Based Learning II
EDER 679.27 – User-Centered Designs I
EDER 679.28 – User-Centered Designs II
EDER 679.35 – Conceptualizing the Learning Sciences
EDER 679.31 – Masters Research Seminar in Educational Technology
Undergraduate
EDPS 481 – Computers in Education I
EDTS 421 – Measurement and Evaluation of Classroom Learning
EDIS 553.58 – Homepage Development for Educators
EDTP 502/504 – Professional Seminar, Learners and Learning/ Teachers and Teaching
EDTP 502/504 – Case Inquiry Seminar, Learners and Learning/ Teachers and Teaching
EDTP 506/508 – Professional Seminar, Curriculum Contexts/Curriculum Studies
EDTP 510 – Field Seminar: Elementary / Secondary
EDTP 510 – Case Seminar: Elementary / Secondary, Semester Three
EDTP 512 – Studies in Pedagogy and Schooling: Inquiry & Technology Across the Curriculum
EDTP 512 – Professional Seminar – Identity, Diversity and Culture
Added Teaching
Independent Study Courses: Graduate Students
EDER 703.28 – Design-Based Research for Problems of Practice in Higher Education
EDER 619.27 – Alberta Education Leadership Academy
EDER 679.95 – Message Design and Doctoral Communication Project
EDER 679.91 – Designing a Learning Object Repository
EDER 679.91 – Inquiry in High School Chemistry
EDER 679.91 – An Applied Inquiry into User-Centered Web Site Design and Development
EDER 679.91 – The Adoption of Technology in Higher Education from 1998 to 2003
EDER 679.91 – Case Study of Relationship between Literacy and Technology
EDER 679.93 – Enablers and Barriers for a Mainstream Faculty Member While Developing Instructional Multimedia: A Case Study
EDER 679.93 – Teaching Innovation Through Wireless Computing Integration
EDER 679.91 – Online Course Design – A Reflective Analysis That Bridges Theory and Practice
EDER 679.91 – Media, Culture and Learning Issues in the Design of Telecollaborative Learning Experiences
EDER 679.91 – Leadership and Professional Development Issues in Promoting Engaging Telecollaborative Learning Experiences