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Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference
April 24, 2009 |
University of Maryland, College Park |
Keynote Presentation Abstracts
Traversing the HiEd Landscape in Search of New Learning Environments
Julie K. Little
Always "on." Social. Content creators. As we discover more about today's learners, how are our conversations about learning environments and student-teacher relationships influenced? Web 2.0. Mobile. The Cloud. How do we seamlessly navigate, utilize, create, and contribute content between physical and virtual worlds? Active. Participatory. Experiential. How do we build compelling learning ecologies that encourage students to think critically, collaborate, and innovate in local and global communities? Readiness. Culture. Adaptation. How are institutions responding to these markers calling for change? These questions are driving the #1 issue in the EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Challenges project. Join the community dialogue.
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Capturing the Visible Evidence of Invisible Learning
Randall Bass
One of the consequences of recent innovations in undergraduate learning
has been to unleash an expanded range of learning far broader and more
complicated than higher education has traditionally recognized. The
growing imperative to educate for complex problem solving and
uncertainty, or to recognize the role of dimensions such as empathy and
creativity as integral to cognitive development, all suggest that we
need to revisit some of our assumptions about knowledge, expertise, and
intellectual development that have shaped our curricula. Much of this
learning is elusive, if not invisible, in traditional pedagogies and
assessments and it is likely that we will never be able to respond
adequately to new demands on education, without a shift in our
professional practices that leads us to attend more to learning, both as
individuals and perhaps even more importantly, as communities of
teachers, with shared responsibility for the curriculum.
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