Conference Summary
Many of us have been innovative and daring in our adoption of new teaching tools and strategies, experimenting with, among other things, wikis, blogs, outcomes-driven course design, real-world writing assignments, clickers, games, and various collaborative learning structures. These innovations often appear to work, but do they? How would we know? What do our students say?
Many of us have been innovative and daring in our adoption of new teaching tools and strategies, experimenting with, among other things, wikis, blogs, outcomes-driven course design, real-world writing assignments, clickers, games, and various collaborative learning structures. These innovations often appear to work, but do they? How would we know? What do our students say?
Friday, April 11, 2008
DePaul Center 8005
8:45 AM - 3:15 PM
Keynote Speaker: Cathy Small, Ph.D.
Northern Arizona University, Author of Academic Bestseller, My Freshman Year
What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
After 15 years of university teaching, Cathy Small felt that she no longer understood her students. Why didn’t they come to office hours? Or do the reading? And where did they get the gall to eat or sleep or text message through class? These questions prompted Small to try to see the world through her students’ eyes by enrolling as a college freshman. Read more...
Northern Arizona University, Author of Academic Bestseller, My Freshman Year
What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
After 15 years of university teaching, Cathy Small felt that she no longer understood her students. Why didn’t they come to office hours? Or do the reading? And where did they get the gall to eat or sleep or text message through class? These questions prompted Small to try to see the world through her students’ eyes by enrolling as a college freshman. Read more...
For more information about this conference, contact Sharon Guan at xguan@depaul.edu.
This one-day conference for DePaul’s full and part-time faculty is sponsored by the Faculty Council, the Quality of Instruction Council, the office of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, and Instructional Design & Development.
This one-day conference for DePaul’s full and part-time faculty is sponsored by the Faculty Council, the Quality of Instruction Council, the office of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, and Instructional Design & Development.