Upcoming Conferences
Here is a short list of the upcoming conferences, along with websites, that are available which you might find useful and enlightening to attend.
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October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
UW-Green Bay Faculty Development Conference: Problem-Focused Learning
UW-Green Bay
January 21, 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKER : DEANNA SELLNOW
She is the Gifford Blyton Endowed Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication at the University of Kentucky. She has published and presented her scholarship in international, national, regional, and state venues. Her work focuses on problem-based learning, service-learning, experiential education, learning style theory, teacher training, assessment, technology-enhanced learning, and gender issues in the classroom. She has conducted workshops for professional groups and university faculty across the country. Her work with learning styles is also currently being used to help shape messages to instruct various publics during crisis events.
For further information please copy and paste the following link:
http://www.uwgb.edu/outreach/facultydev/
3RD Annual Great Northwoods Service Learning Workshop
Friday, February 12, 2010
Jefferson Street Inn, Wausau, WI
Have you considered service-learning in your classroom or programs but are not sure how to proceed? Are you a seasoned service learning provided, willing to share your experiences with others? Would you like to learn more as to what service learning is about?
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Robert Franco is an ecological anthropologist focusing on contemporary Hawaiian, Samoan, and Pacific Islander educational, employment, health, and cultural issues. He has published scholarly and policy research on Samoan political and cultural change, the meaning and management of water in ancient Hawaii, and sociocultural factors affecting Pacific tuna fisheries. In 2009 he led the publication of American Samoa's first written history, a required 9th grade textbook. He provides community college, university, and conference audiences with research-based training designed to improve retention, degree completion, and transfer rates through service-learning, community-based research, and authentic partnerships. His current research and training focuses on service-learning and reducing the minority academic achievement gap, thereby strengthening the liberal arts, workforce development and the civic missions of community colleges. He currently serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on two major National Science Foundation grants and as a Faculty Fellow for NSF's Science and Civic Engagement Initiative.
WORKSHOP PRESENTERS:
-Dr. Suzanne Goodrich: District-wide Co-Chair of Psychology Dept. & Psychology Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College.
-Dr. Dean Pribbenow: Dean of the school of Integrative Studies at Edgewood College
-Dr. Pamela Proulx-Curry: Executive Director of Wisconsin Campus Compact
Financial support for this event is being provided by UW Colleges & UW Extension. This event is open to their faculty/staff at no charge, though filling out the registration form is required. The event is open to faculty/staff of other Wisconsin institutions for a fee of $35.00 to cover the cost of meals and other incidentals.
To view the schedule and registration information, please follow this link:
Please copy and paste this link to access the agenda and registration form, along with driving directions:
http://www.wicampuscompact.org/gnslw.php
***REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010. ***
UW System E-Portfolio Showcase
February 16, 2010, 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Pyle Center-Madison, WI
Analyzing Written and Spoken Data
Pyle Center, Madison, Wiscionsin
10:00am - 4:00pm,
Friday, February 26, 2010
OPID's Leadership Site is sponsoring this workshop which is designed to assist researchers who have collected written or spoken data in one or more of the following methods and are now wondering how to analyze and make sense of the data.
~ Student Journals
~ D2L Discussion Boards
~ Student Papers
~ Interviews
~ Focus Groups
~ Other forms of written and spoken data
Presentation Topics:
Content Analysis (Renee Meyers, Coordinator of UWS SoTL Leadership Site) and Grounded Theory (Katina Lazarides, Communication and Project Specialist for the UWS SoTL Leadership Site). Nancy Chick (Associate Professor of English and Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program Co-Director) will offer a short, hands-on workshop on how to get started using Grounded Theory with written data.
This workshop is open to the first 35 registrants. Please register by Friday, February 12, 2010 , by emailing Katina Lazarides ( kazar@uwm.edu ). Include your name, institution, department, and any dietary restrictions.
General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities
Seattle, Washington
February 18-20, 2010
General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities invites fresh thinking and new approaches to help faculty, staff, and administrators maintain momentum in general education and assessment during tough times, and reaffirms a commitment to engaged liberal education as the guiding principle for campus action. The conference will draw on AAC&U’s long-standing projects and publications on general education reform including work to bring diversity, global, and civic learning into general education and models for advancing scientific and quantitative literacy through real-world curricula and problem-based pedagogies.
Conference themes include:
- vision, goals, and designs of general education;
- faculty engagement and collaboration, including with student affairs;
- assessment and alignment; and
- maintaining momentum, related to navigating change politically, structurally, and in a time of restricted resources.
For more information about each theme, visit the Call for Proposals.
Special Features of the 2010 Conference
Realizing that campuses have scarce resources for professional development and travel to meetings, AAC&U is including several special features in the 2010 conference:
- general education designs that address global learning themes (e.g., sustainability and global citizenship) to promote integrative learning;
- in partnership with AAC&U’s Shared Futures initiative and Project Kaleidoscope, sessions on scientific and quantitative literacy and science and global learning;
- workshops on navigating transition points—from goals to design, and from design to implementation and assessment;
- hands-on practice using rubrics to assess student work;
- "problem-solving” roundtable discussions based on participant needs; and
- a “local issues forum” highlighting regional trends, political issues, and other topics influencing general education and assessment.
Sponsors
Please contact the Development Office at (202) 884-7421 or e-mail Development@aacu.org for information about sponsorship opportunities for this conference.
The SoTL Conference: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
March 10-12, 2010
Statesboro, GA
The Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET) will host the 3rd annual “The SoTL Commons” conference on the campus of Georgia Southern University. The conference brings together people engaging in SoTL and anyone wanting to improve student learning outcomes in higher education today. The conference epitomizes that college teaching is intellectual work that is enhanced both by disciplinary scholarship and the scholarship on teaching the disciplines (SoTL). The SoTL Commons Conference is a catalyst for learning, conversations and collaborations about SoTL as a key, evidence-based way to improve student learning. |
The keynote speakers will be Dr. Carolin Kreber (University of Edinburgh), Dr. Kathleen McKinney (Illinois State University), and Dr. Gary Pooler (University of British Columbia). |
For further information, please copy and paste the following link:
http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/2010/index.htm
FACULTY ROLES IN HIGH-IMPACT PRACTICES
March 25-27, 2010
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Faculty know that increasing students' effort and engagement are both important to student success. Certain curricular and pedagogical practices - including undergraduate research, service-learning, first-year and capstone projects/programs, and learning communities - by their nature require students to be actively involved in their own learning. These "high-impact" practices, when done well, engage students by helping them to make their own discoveries and connections, grapple with "big" questions whose importance they can see, and address complex problems.
From teaching integrative capstone courses, to running offices of community engagement, to leading national networks devoted to undergraduate research, faculty are at the forefront of developing, improving, and expanding the reach of these high-impact practices. What can others learn from their efforts?
Faculty Roles in High-Impact Practices will highlight the new and expanding roles that faculty are playing in developing and using high-impact practices-in and beyond the disciplines - to foster student learning. The conference is designed for faculty members seeking innovative, robust, and practical designs for learning, teaching, and assessment approaches proven to deepen student engagement, and a network of engaged colleagues. It is also geared toward administrators and others on campus looking to support and partner with faculty to advance the use of high-impact practices for more students, more intentionally, across multiple points in time. The conference thus seeks proposals highlighting models of these high-impact practices and those that address issues of faculty rewards, promotion and tenure, cost-effectiveness, and more.
AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal invites faculty, division heads, department chairs, deans, and others to explore faculty roles in high-impact practices. Proposals from institutions of all types and sizes - public and private, two-year and four-year, large and small - are encouraged. Visit the Call for Proposals for more information.
For more information and to register, click here.
Questions about any of AAC&U's meetings? E-mail meetings@aacu.org.
Sharing LGBTQ Best Practices Conference
Friday, April 9th, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
"Embedding Inclusive Excellence into the Curriculum: Sharing LGBTQ Best Practices," with a continental breakfast beginning at 9:30am.
The primary goals of the second workshop will be to:
a) identify ways to embed Inclusive Excellence into the curriculum through LGBTQ content;
b) assist faculty in aligning LGBTQ content with Learning Outcomes;
c) identify best practices for infusing LGBTQ content;
d) exchange discipline based syllabi and assignments.
This workshop, while addressing issues from the first workshop, will focus on curriculum infusion on a wider basis, asking the question of how instructors can include diversity in general and LGBTQ content specifically into their general education and major courses. Discussion will address the challenge of teaching material outside one’s defined field of expertise, pedagogical approaches to teaching diversity effectively to resistant students, and how incorporating LGBTQ content connects to and is consistent with campus-based learning outcomes and the goals of the Inclusive Excellence initiative.
The morning will be devoted to panel members who will share their expertise, and, in the afternoon, participants will be able to engage in discussion and information/syllabi exchange.
Panel members for both workshops are:
Dr. Carole Vopat, Professor of English, UW Parkside
Dr. Joe Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UW Parkside
Dr. Deb Hoskins, co-chair Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of WGSS, UW LaCrosse
Dr. Jordan Landry, Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean, UW Oshkosh
Dr. Susan Wolfgram, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies,
UW Stout.
TO REGISTER: There are no registration fees, and thanks to two OPID grants, lunch and snacks will be provided. The workshop has a limit of 50, and we will sign people up on a first-come, first-served basis. We will keep a waiting list in case of cancellations.
To register for “Embedding Inclusive Excellence into the Curriculum: Sharing LGBTQ Best Practices on Friday, April 9, 2010, at UW Oshkosh:
Email lgbtqcenter@uwosh.edu. Put Embedding Inclusive Excellence in the subject line. Please provide your name, email address, work phone number, which campus you are from, and your department in the body of the email, and we will send you an electronic confirmation
"Leadership and Collaboration in Shaping the Future: The Intersections of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality”
April 16-17, 2010 at UW-Whitewater
Proposals due October 23, 2009
Bringing together academics, teachers, students, community leaders, activists, and others, the gathering is co-sponsored by the UW-Whitewater Women's Studies Program and three UW System offices: the Women’s Studies Consortium; the Institute on Race and Ethnicity; and the Inclusivity Initiative.
The conference organizers seek proposals addressing research, scholarship, program development, pedagogy, curriculum, and/or community activism in the fields of Women’s, Racial/Ethnic, and LGBTQ Studies. A general focus on intersecting diversity issues and identities, as well as emerging and effective educational and organizational practices/processes, is encouraged. Best practices and case studies suitable for replication (or to be avoided) are especially welcome, especially as they relate to the educational advancement of our students and to the fields of Women’s Studies, Racial/Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ Studies and/or Disability Studies. Presentations that represent approaches to topics which are collaborative, cooperative, diverse, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational are encouraged.
Proposals due October 23, 2009
Go here for more information: http://www.uww.edu/conteduc/camps/wsc/form.php
Questions?
Contact the Women's Studies Consortium Office, (608) 262-3056 or WSCOffice@uwsa.edu
The University of Wisconsin System
2010 President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning
April 29-May 1, 2010
Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club
UW System faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for the President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a conference to be held April 29-May 1, 2010, at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison, WI. The Summit is being co-sponsored by the Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID), PK-16 Teacher Quality Initiative, Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE), Women & Science Program, Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC), Women’s Studies Consortium (WSC), and the UW System Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.
The President’s Summit will bring together over 200 faculty and staff across disciplines to demonstrate the UW System’s commitment to excellence in higher education during tough economic times. Replacing or expanding upon several smaller annual spring conferences, the Summit will provide a forum in which to recognize, acknowledge, and share the expertise of faculty and academic staff who excel at teaching, value learning, and are committed to sharing their experience, knowledge, practice, and scholarship. The intentional relationships among teaching, learning, and making excellence inclusive will be highlighted throughout this event.
In addition to keynote addresses by UW System President Kevin Reilly and others, the Summit will feature plenary and concurrent sessions on: curricular transformation and the scholarship of teaching and learning across the disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Global and International Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Professional Studies, Social Sciences and STEM areas. Designed to advance Inclusive Excellence, the UW System’s planning process for greater diversity, equity and inclusion, the Summit will showcase presentations focused on: Inclusive Pedagogies in disability studies, race and ethnic studies, women, gender and sexuality studies, and socioeconomic status across the curriculum; Emerging and Effective Technologies in the classroom; and High Impact Practices, those educationally effective practices that include collaborative assignments and projects, writing-intensive courses, first-year seminars, undergraduate student-faculty research, learning communities, international studies, community-based and service learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects.
Proposals in all these areas are invited from UW System faculty, instructional staff, and students with faculty/staff sponsorship. Presentation formats will include papers, panels, café-style and round table-discussions, workshops, and poster sessions. In addition, the Summit will provide opportunities for working and constituent groups from throughout the UW System to convene, including, for example, the IRE Advisory Committee, SAGLA, Compass Teams, the Women & Science Program, and others.
Please submit your proposal to present or to convene a working group by November 4th, 2009, to: http://www.uwsa.edu/vpacad/summit/proposals.htm
Confirmations regarding accepted proposals will be sent by mid-December, 2009.
The Planning Committee for the 2010 President’s Summit on Teaching and Learning looks forward to an exciting systemwide conference focusing attention on the outstanding accomplishments and commitment of faculty and instructional staff throughout the University of Wisconsin System.
The Teaching Professor Conference
May 21-23, 2010
Cambridge, MA
This three-day conference is packed with events designed to enrich your teaching practice. There are plenary sessions keynoted by nationally-recognized experts, carefully selected concurrent sessions on a range of relevant topics, round table discussions, posters and all sorts of opportunities for informal interaction. Recent books on teaching and learning as well as other valuable higher education resources are available for review and purchase during the conference.
Please copy and paste the following link for further information:
http://www.teachingprofessor.com/conference
Merlot
3rd Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium
Call for Proposals - Deadline January 18, 2010
July 20-23, 2010
SENCER Summer Institute 2010
July 29-Aug. 2, 2010
Save the Date: SSI 2010
The 2010 SENCER Summer Institute will be hosted by the University of North Carolina at Asheville and is tentatively planned for July 29 - August 2, 2010. UNCA is the also the host institution for the SENCER Center for Innovation - South and has applied the SENCER approach extensively to the reform of courses and programs. Detailed information on applications, costs, lodging, and programming for the Institute will be posted to the SENCER website and sent out through the eNews this fall.
For more information, please visit www.sencer.net
26th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
August 4-6, 2010
Monona Terrace Convention Center/Madison, WI
The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning is recognized internationally for the quality and integrity of its program. Each year the conference provides an exchange of current resources, research, and best practices from around the world that are relevant to the design and delivery of distance education/training.
A wide spectrum of professionals in distance education, experienced as well as newcomers, attend the conference each year. They represent organizations from all regions of the United States and other countries worldwide.
Keynote Speakers:
Michael W. Allen- Founder & CEO Allen Interactions
Etienne Wenger- Independent Author & Thinker
Jane Bozarth- E-Learning Coordinator, North Carolina Office of State Personnel
