The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor is once again sponsoring a Teaching & Learning Symposium to continue conversations about improving teaching and learning at UNL. The Spring 2018 Symposium will be Friday, February 23, 2018, from 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center. Check-in begins at 12:15 p.m.
Click here for more information about the keynote and breakout sessions and a link to the registration form.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Engaging Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning
Typically, we teach to students. What happens if we approach our work differently, aiming to teach with students? Emerging research suggests that engaging students as partners in teaching and learning has the potential to enhance, and perhaps even transform, student learning - and also our teaching. This interactive keynote will explore practical strategies from diverse disciplines for creating and sustaining student-faculty partnerships in teaching and learning.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Peter Felten, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, Professor of History, Elon University. His books include the co-authored volumes: The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most (Jossey-Bass, 2016); Transforming Students: Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014); Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 2014); Transformative Conversations (Jossey-Bass, 2013); and the co-edited book Intersectionality in Action (Stylus, 2016). He has served as president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2016-17) and also of the POD Network (2010-2011), the U.S. professional society for educational developers. He is co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development and a fellow of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS/INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS: Two 90-minute interactive, participatory workshop-style breakout sessions follow the keynote. These concurrent breakout sessions focus on teaching challenges highlighted in the keynote, and provide participants the opportunity to interact with others interested in improving teaching at UNL. Concluding the symposium will be a 45-minute hands-on workshop facilitated by keynote presenter Dr. Felten on best practices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning -- how to design, conduct, analyze, and write-up SoTL work.
POSTER SESSIONS: A poster session designed to promote dialog among faculty about effective and innovative ways to improve and document teaching and learning at UNL will take place immediately prior to the keynote and during the break after the keynote. In addition, there will be posters highlighting resources available to faculty to support their teaching.
If you have questions, please contact Marie Barber at mbarber2@unl.edu or 2-4354.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/68oa