Office: Mendocino Hall, 5034
Campus ZIP: 6070
E-mail: stoner1@csus.edu (the best way to reach me)

Office Hours: FALL 2015 
Monday 10-11 AM; Tuesday, 4-5 PM; Wednesday 10-11 AM  (Skype by app't.)
Class schedule FA 2015:

• Recent Presentations
• Recent publications, then less recent
  
• Instructional links
• Speaking Across the Curriculum
• Material for T.A.s, and Part-time instructors
• NETS: ComS department alumni, faculty, student activity
• Accessibility Resources
• My Blogs (related to academic travel)
  
• Free and Creative Culture

Recent Presentations:

5 July 2015 "A Context, a Concept and a Concern". Address to open the faculty convocation of the College of Distance Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. (video)

4-5 August 2014.
"Misplaced Management Theory in a Massive System of Higher Education: Text, Context and Reconstructive Loop” at The Fourteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations. Said Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

For copy of full conference paper, click here

21 September 2012.
Reframing, recontextualizing and the social reconstruction of higher education in California, USA

Summary paper for ECER 2012 symposium, Policy Studies and Politics of Education (Cadiz, Spain),

July 2011

Presentation at the 18th International Learning Conference, Mauritius (Univ. of Mauritius)

• Presentation Ppt
• Framing/Classification Analysis Tool (paper and pencil)
• Framing/Classification Analysis Tool (Online and automated scoring)

Carrington College Faculty Development Workshop Material (October 2010 ) PDF

2009 March Durham University, UK.  CeTL/PostGraduate module.  "PowerPoint: Affordances, constraints and work arounds."

2007 August Folsom Lake Community College Faculty Convocation  "Teaching Problems."   (Text version); Podcast (mp3) (Audio version)

2007 February Western States Communication Association Master Teacher Award; Acceptance presentation                                                   "Socially Constructing 'Master Teacher'."

Recent essays:

Mandeville, D. & Stoner, M. (2015). Assessing the effect of problem-based learning on undergraduate student learning in biomechanics.
              Journal of College Science Teaching, 41, 1, pp. 92-101.

Stoner, M., Rautiainen, M., Moisio, O-P & Green, C. (2014). The “Finnish Miracle” in Education: Pedagogy, Policy, or Something Else? Part
             One. National Teaching & Learning Forum, 23, 3, pp. 8-10.  Contact Mark Stoner for a copy. (stoner1@csus.edu)

Stoner, M., Rautiainen, M., Moisio, O-P & Green, C. (2014). The “Finnish Miracle” in Education: Pedagogy, Policy, or Something Else? Part
             Two. National Teaching & Learning Forum, 23, 4, pp. 5-7.  Contact Mark Stoner for a copy. (stoner1@csus.edu)

Stoner, M., Higgins, S. & Bonilla, D. (2012) Cracking our own codes: Creating instruction for increased clarity and appropriate control.
             The International Journal on  Learning (18), pp. 229-247.  Follow-up project in process:  Epistemic Cultures and Instructional
             Design. We are working on modeling a third dimension for the analytical tool we presented in Cracking our own codes....  We invite
             you to play with a beta version of the tool here: http://hypergraphia.com/IDT/    Any data you provide would be helpful to the project.

Less recent essays:

Stoner, M. (2007). PowerPoint in a new key. Communication Education, 56, 354-381.

Stoner, M. (2007). Uncovering the powers within PowerPoint. Communication Currents, 2 (4).

Ah Yun, K., Papa, R, & Stoner, M. (2006). Disseminating STEM teaching practices: The role of centers for teaching and learning. Metropolitan
               Universities Journal, 17, 66-76.

Stoner, M. (2005).  Instant discussions: High level, student constructed and concept driven The Successful Professor,  4, 11-13.

Stoner, M. "I Never Thought Like This Before!": Apprenticing Critical Thinking

Instructional links:

A Potpourri of Instructional Links

Creating Engaging Lessons: A tutorial

• Developing Engaging Lessons (pdf)
• Patterns for Facilitating Engagement (pdf)
• A Quick Guide to Engagement (pdf)
• A Potpourri of Instructional URLs
  
• Center for Teaching and Learning

Material for T.A.s, and Part-time instructors:

• Arts and Letters Policy/Guidelines for Syllabus Construction
• CSUS Student Writing Handbook 
• What about streaming media?

NETS: Networking-Extending Teaching and Scholarship

         http://comnets.wikispaces.com/

Accessibility Resources:

• Accessibility Handout
  
• Why My Web Pages Look Like They Do
  

Speaking Across the Curriculum

My Blogs:

2006 Sabbatical and Picture tour

2008 Teaching in CH                    
2013 Suomi opettaa (Finland Teaches): A blog of my trip to University of Jyvaskyla

2015 Improving Teaching and Learning Together (University of Cape Coast, Ghana W/A) 

Free and Creative Culture