| Event | Dates | Short Description |
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| 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… |
| The Engaged Classroom: Skills for Facilitating Discussions for Faculty |
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Faculty Not eligible for Certificate |
Opportunities for classroom participation help connect students to the material, the instructor, and each other. Research shows that active participation fosters critical thinking, long-term retention of course material and improved… |
| Spicing Up Teaching to Improve Student Learning |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Creating a productive learning environment where students are engaged in critical thinking and problem solving can be challenging. In this session, participants will explore research-based teaching practices that can enhance student learning and… |
| It's Time for Action: Implementing Your Active Learning Plan [Advanced Practice Teaching] |
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- Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
This session offers participants an opportunity to practice active learning techniques by presenting a lesson to a small peer group. In advance of the session, participants will review short online podcasts about active learning and will plan a… |
| Leading Classroom Discussions in the Social Sciences and Humanities |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
How can I heighten student participation in my sections? What are different ways I can plan a discussion and ask questions of students? How can I enhance students’ critical thinking skills? This seminar will provide GSIs in social… |
| Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Exploring the benefits of take home laboratories with cigar-box mechatronic/haptic testbed. Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors at various stages along the way… |
| Teaching for Student Retention in Engineering: What Can GSIs Do? |
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Graduate Students Requirement B2 |
Lunch will be provided.
Extensive research on why students leave engineering suggests that individual instructors can play a key role in supporting and retaining a diverse student body. In this workshop, specific… |
| The Influence of Gender Stereotypes on Role Adoption in Student Teams |
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Everyone |
Drs. Lorelle Meadows and Denise Sekaquaptewa won a Best Paper Award for their research on student teams at the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference. Their work shows that, in Engineering 100 group projects,… |
| Learning Analytics Projects in U-M Electrical Engineering and Spanish |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
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| What's It Like to Work at a Liberal Arts College - Panel Discussion |
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Graduate Students Not eligible for Certificate |
Interested in teaching at a liberal arts college? A faculty panel from liberal arts colleges will discuss job search strategies and faculty worklife. In addition, participants will learn about the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships at Oberlin and… |
| Engineering Education Research: Works in Progress |
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Everyone Not eligible for Certificate |
Is that idea really different? Is that idea really serious? Exploring adaptive and innovative thinking in idea generation. Join faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in discussions about their engineering education research endeavors… |
| "If I Only Knew Then": Lessons From Experienced GSIs |
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Graduate Students |
Both first-time and returning GSIs will benefit from discussing a variety of concerns with a panel of experienced GSIs. Likely discussion topics include overcoming nervousness, dealing with disruptive students, getting students actively involved… |
| GSITO |
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Graduate Students Requirement A |
This is the campus-wide GSI teaching orientation. For full details about the agenda, [add node] |
