| Event | Dates | Short Description |
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| Enriching Scholarship: Creative Uses of Technology to Assess Student Learning |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
How do you know your students are "getting it" before they take an exam or write a paper? Creative use of technology early in the learning process can help instructors efficiently gauge student progress and provide valuable opportunities for… |
| Enriching Scholarship: Using Everyday Technologies for Teaching |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
This workshop will offer an overview of various everyday, easily accessible technologies that can be used as pedagogical tools in the classroom and in the production of student work. We will review how to utilize these technologies for presenting… |
| Enriching Scholarship: Gameful Learning 2.0 |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
This session helps instructors bring strategies from the world of games to their courses. Sometimes called "gamification," gameful practices include "leveling up" (instead of being marked down), safe failures (instead of high-stakes assignments… |
| Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Qualitative assessment of the learning outcomes of an international service learning project in Civil Engineering Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at… |
| Student Learning and Analytics at Michigan (SLAM): Projects at U-M, 2013-2014 |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
This session will give participants an overview of the projects undertaken by the 2013 and 2014 Provost's Learning Analytics Fellows. Presentations will include: Chemistry Placement at the University of Michigan: Burdening At-Risk… |
| Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Evaluating the influence of pre- and post-class online modules on learning and retention Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at various stages along the way.… |
| Next Steps With IT |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
This is a hands-on session showcasing 4 technologies (Piazza, M+Box, Google Drive, and blogging) that GSIs might use in their classrooms. We'll start off with mini-intros/pitches for each of the technologies. Next, we'll have two segments… |
| Teaching With Digital Collections in the Humanities |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
Through their digital collections, the U-M libraries put giant caches of texts, images, music, and more at your fingertips. As an instructor, how can you best take advantage of these rich resources? Focusing on courses in the… |
| Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
An analysis of students' use of design ethnography techniques during capstone design Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at various stages along the way.… |
| Emerging Tech: Lesson Builder - Organize Your CTools Site |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
The Emerging Technology workshop series highlights tools that have proven to be useful for promoting active student engagement both inside and outside the classroom. The four highlighted tools, Piazza, Socrative, Jing, and CTools… |
| Student Persistence, Performance, and Disciplinary Pathways: The Effects of Race, Class, Gender, Institution, and Discipline | - | Dr. Matt Ohland leads the MIDFIELD project, a multi-institution research study involving a dataset that includes academic records of more than 200,000 engineering undergraduate students and more than 800,000 non-engineering students. Through… |
| Eighth Annual Research and Scholarship in Engineering Education Poster Session |
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Everyone |
Faculty and students across the university are engaged in scholarly work in the field of engineering education. This poster session, held over lunch, will feature the work of faculty, staff, and students from engineering, education, physics,… |
| Tools for Managing Student Teams: The Team-Maker and CATME Systems (And Why They Work) |
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Everyone |
There are many reasons to use student teams in the engineering classroom. Students can develop important teamwork skills, learn to work with diverse others, and have deeper learning gains, and instructors can offer more extensive feedback on… |
| Leveraging Student Diversity in the Classroom |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Research shows that engaging with diverse peers can enhance student learning in the college classroom. How can teachers make good use of the diversity—both visible and invisible—in their classes to foster productive peer exchanges that… |
| Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Fine-grained analysis of student discourse: Quantitative and qualitative approaches Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at various stages along the way.… |
| Leveraging Student Diversity in the Classroom |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2, Diversity and Inclusive Teaching |
Research shows that engaging with diverse peers can enhance student learning in the college classroom. How can teachers make good use of the diversity—both visible and invisible—in their classes to foster productive peer exchanges that… |
| How Do You Motivate Engineering Students to Want to Learn in Your Class? |
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Faculty |
Lunch will be provided.
Are your students off-task, apathetic, or absent? Do you want to stimulate their intellectual curiosity? If so, then join us at this interactive workshop that will provide you with evidence-… |
| Using Technology to Check Student Understanding and Provide Feedback: An Online Workshop |
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Everyone Requirement B2, Instructional Technology |
In this online workshop, you will explore technologies that can be used to help check student understanding and provide feedback on student learning. You will have the option to explore these tools in the context of teaching concept based… |
| Using Learning Analytics to Measure Out-of-Class Learning: U-M Learning Communities and Medical School Study Resources |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Presentation #1: Exploring the Impact of Michigan Learning Communities |
| The Nuts and Bolts of Peer Instruction in Your Own Classroom |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
This workshop, a follow-up to the Eric Mazur events on 2/14/14, will go in-depth into best practices for implementing Peer Instruction into your class. Peer Instruction is a pedagogy that can be used in any discipline, with or without… |
| Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Development of student motivation in a required Electrical Engineering (EE) course for non-EE majors. Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at various stages… |
| Peer Instruction: A Workshop (Eric Mazur, Harvard University) |
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Everyone Requirement B2 |
The basic goals of Peer Instruction are to encourage and make use of student interaction during lectures, while focusing students' attention on underlying concepts and techniques. The method has been assessed in many studies using standardized,… |
| Catalyzing Learning Using Learning Catalytics |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Most -- if not all -- of the important skills in our life are acquired outside the traditional classroom setting. Yet we continue to teach using lectures where students passively take down information. Instead, we should really focus on the… |
| Peer Instruction: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer (Eric Mazur, Harvard University) |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing… |
| Speaking Skills in Classroom Settings |
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- Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
In this two-part seminar, we will discuss how to structure and deliver material in ways that engage the students and improve student learning. Each participant will have the opportunity to practice giving a short explanation of a course concept… |
