Blended & Online Teaching & Learning Symposium: Increasing Engagement in Online, Blended and Face-to-Face Classes, November 4th, Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center. The emphasis of this Symposium is on keeping students involved, motivated, and actively leaning in face-to-face, fully online, blended, flipped, or technology enhanced classes. Faculty and staff are welcome to attend all, or selected, sessions.
Luncheon Keynote and Campus Conversation: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Terms of Engagement: Understanding Student Engagement in Today’s Classroom
Speaker: Elizabeth F. Barkley, author of Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty and Student Engagement Techniques
Dr. Barkley will share a 5-element theoretical model for defining and understanding student engagement that provides a framework for promoting it in today’s college and university classroom.
Afternoon Workshop: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Practical and Effective Strategies to Get Your Students Engaged
Workshop Facilitator: Elizabeth F. Barkley
This highly interactive session will help faculty better understand the elements that contribute to student engagement as well as learn solid, practical and effective strategies and techniques for promoting it in in face-to-face, blended, flipped, or fully online classes.
Morning Sessions: 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
· Workshop: Enhancing Presence in the Online Classroom 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
· The Power of Place: Using GPS to Increase Content Engagement 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
· Using Blended Learning to Address Instructional Challenges 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
For more information and to register: http://go.unl.edu/symposium2014
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/symposium2014