Conferences & Institutes
Getting Connected: Best Practices in Technology-Enhanced Teaching & Learning in Psychology
Atlanta, GA, October 3-4, 2008
http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/conferences/beginnings_endings/2008/best_practices.html
The 2008 conference will focus on innovative and effective techniques that use technology to impact student learning. We are interested in applications and assessments of technology's impact in on-ground, hybrid or blended, and totally online courses. We encourage proposals that address technology as a teaching tool as managed by the instructor (e.g., PowerPoint, student response systems or "clickers," multimedia) as well as student-based uses of technology that can be more independent of the instructor (e.g., social networking). Modeled after the format of the previous conferences, the conference will include keynote speakers, concurrent symposia and workshops, and poster sessions.
Best Teachers Summer Institute
June 18-20, 2008. New York City
http://www.bestteachersinstitute.org
A three-day institute based on Ken Bain's award-winning and best selling book What the Best College Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2004), and featuring author Ken Bain and some of the subjects of the 15-year study of excellence in college education. Institute combines resources of Montclair State University, Northwestern University, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Princeton University.
A World of Learning: The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Annual Meeting
Windsor, Ontario, June 18-21, 2008
The 28th Annual STLHE Conference will explore the assumptions, practices, challenges and possibilities of internationalization, broadened world views, and the impact of globalization trends in post-secondary settings. How can institutions of higher learning incorporate international and intercultural dimensions and a heightened awareness into the educational process? How does a multiplicity of cultural, linguistic and experiential differences among students require educators to adjust approaches to epistemology, academic practice, and self-expression?
Diversity, Learning and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress
Long Beach, CA, October 16-18, 2008
This conference will highlight curricular, co-curricular, and institutional models that enable higher education leaders to develop, implement, assess, and continually learn from the experience of fostering diverse learning environments in which all students develop. The conference aims to help campuses take diversity efforts to the next level of comprehensive, coordinated action, where educational benefits for all students and for the institution more broadly, can be demonstrated in meaninful ways.
The Eighth International Reserach Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
New Orleans, LA, October 25-28, 2008
The theme of the conference is The Scholarship of Engagement: Dimensions of Reciprocal Partnerships. Campus-community collaborations can take many forms and provide academic, social, civic, and economic benefits to a broad range of individuals and organizations. Reciprocity creates and sustains equitable partnerships that foster the mission, goals, and objectives of each constituent. This conference will explore the variety of partnerships that flourish in educational institutions and their communities through service-learning courses, community-based research projects, and student-led multi-curricular activities. The contributions of a variety of research approaches in building and sustaining such partnerships will be emphasized. The conference brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss research topics in the study of service-learning and community engagement.
Engaging Science, Advancing Learning: General Education, Majors, and the New Global Century
Providence, Rhode Island, November 6-8, 2007
Thsi conference will explore the place and practice of science in college learning for the twenty-first century.There is strong agreement that the Univted States must make science achievement a top priority. We need more successful science graduates, and we need many more graduates - whatever their majory - who can evaluate and use scientific information in making decisions.
General Education and Assessment
Baltimore, Maryland, February 26-28, 2009
Defining the Professoriate for the 21st Century
San Diego, CA, April 2-4, 2009