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 Fall 2017 Symposium will be
Monday, October 9, 2017
1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center
Check-in begins at 12:30 p.m.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Course Design and the Broken Escalator
When you're on an escalator and it breaks down, the options for rescue are typically self-evident. But what do you do when your course "breaks down" and is no longer leading to the types of student engagement and learning you hope for? In this highly participatory session, we'll explore three principles of effective course design that will help you step off the broken escalator and help your students discover the value of your course, recognize and appreciate the knowledge and skills they will learn, and learn to love the beauty that makes studying your discipline worthwhile.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Michael Palmer, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, Professor and Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Virginia, directs a variety of educational development programs, such as Tomorrow's Professor Today, the annual Course Design Institute, Nucleus, and Ignite. He won the 2014 POD Network Innovation Award for work on a valid & reliable syllabus rubric, the 2015 Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development for work on student perceptions of syllabus, and the 2016 POD Network Innovation Award for work on a highly interactive, online learning environment for course design. Dr. Palmer's pedagogical interests include course design, active learning, student motivation, creative thinking, and teaching large enrollment courses, particularly in STEM disciplines. He teaches a highly interdisciplinary course on infinity, a seminar on the science of learning, and a large-enrollment, inquiry-based laboratory course for first-year chemistry students. In 2012, he won one of University of Virginia's All-University Teaching Awards.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS/INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS: Three 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.
If you have questions, please contact Marie Barber at mbarber2@unl.edu or 2-4354.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/e7fb