With November just around the corner, time is winding down to register for the Fall 2021 Teaching and Learning Symposium.
Hosted by the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office and the Center for Transformative Teaching, this year’s theme is co-creation and student success, which supports the N2025 commitment that every student be provided the opportunity to co-create their UNL education.
“Co-creation in higher education is a collection of practices from leadership and administration, through curriculum design, to classroom activities, that demand the engagement of students in ways that set aside – as far as is possible – the dynamic of teacher-pupil and other established hierarchies,” Nick Monk, director for the CTT said. “There are significant benefits for students, faculty, staff, and the institution itself from co-creation activities. For faculty a significant benefit is that the deeper engagement of students in the design and content of their own education produces levels of commitment that is often reflected in higher grades and more interesting work.”
Joining the conference via live stream will be keynote speaker Alison Cook-Sather who has developed internationally recognized programs that position students as pedagogical consultants to prospective secondary teachers and to practicing college faculty members.
Cook-Sather is a Mary Katharine Woodworth professor of education at Bryn Mawr College and director of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges in Pennsylvania.
After the keynote, there will be two concurrent sessions from UNL professors Matt Waite, who will discuss co-creating course content with student feedback, and Sabine Zempleni, who will talk about what co-creation looks like in real life, followed by a panel session focused on faculty-student collaboration projects. Ending the symposium will be several, five-minute speed sessions highlighting strategies and techniques that have been effective in classes throughout the university.
The symposium is open to members of the teaching community at UNL and will be hosted in-person and online. Those planning to attend in person have until Oct. 27 to register and ensure their lunch order.
To learn more about the symposium and register, visit teaching.unl.edu/symposium.
More details at: https://teaching.unl.edu/symposium/