Upcoming Events
23rd Annual Fall Conference on Teaching and Learning
Date and Time
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 8:00 AM
Description
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Eberhard Conference Center, Pew Grand Rapids Campus
- Continental Breakfast and Registration: 8:30 - 9 am
- Keynote Presentation: 9 - 10:30 am
- Faculty-led Concurrent Sessions: 11 am - noon
- Lunch: noon - 1 pm
- Data and the Digital World Summer Session: 1 - 4:30 pm
- Separate registration for this event coming soon
Keynote Presentation: Cultivating Learning: Challenges & Solutions to Fostering Lifelong Learning
Dr. Regan A. R. Gurung, Ben J. and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Human Development and Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Faculty want our students to learn but what exactly is learning and how do we know when it has happened? A vast number of factors influence learning and some are more under our control than others. In this keynote address, Dr. Gurung will present a new model of thinking about learning that can help share how we design classes and provides pragmatic suggestions for how to improve student education.
Please register in Sprout.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Using Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Optimize Teaching and Foster Student Learning
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Eberhard Conference Center, Pew Grand Rapids Campus
- Lunch: noon - 1 pm
- Workshop: 1- 3 pm
- Project Planning and Consultations: 3 - 4 pm
We are delighted that Dr. Gurung will facilitate this special pre-conference workshop opportunity. Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) involves reflecting on one's class and making intentional, systematic changes to one's teaching, then assessing the effects of those changes on student learning. In this interactive workshop, he will first outline the methodology of SoTL, then provide some exemplars or SoTL that attendees can use to modify their classes, and finally set the stage for interested parties to conduct SoTL themselves.
Please register in Sprout. Space is limited.
Information
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