Read about the event, September 27, 2006.
UIT Forum for Teaching, Learning, and Research
"Using Classroom Response Systems to Engage Students and Gage Understanding"
Date: Friday, April 20, 2007
12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: Austin Room
Tisch Library, Medford Campus
Presenters: Jerry Dallal, Chief of the Biostatistics Unit, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging; Hugh Gallagher, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; George Norman, William and Joyce Cummings Family Chair of Entrepreneurship and Business Economics
"Electronic Portfolios to Facilitate Learning Connections, Reflections, and Presentations"
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: Austin Room
Tisch Library, Medford Campus
Presenters: Mary Evenson and Andrea Sherwin, Department of Occupational Therapy
"Teaching with Digital Images"
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007
12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: Austin Room
Tisch Library, Medford Campus
Presenters: Daniel Abramson, Cristelle Baskins, and Eva Hoffman, Dept. of Art & Art History; Rob Chavez and Anne Sauer, Digital Collections & Archives
"Web-Based Video Tools to Support Learning"
Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2006
12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: Austin Room
Tisch Library, Medford Campus
Presenters: James Glaser, Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of Political Science, and Daniel Cogan-Drew, Project Manager, Department of Education
"GIS @ Tufts: New Developments in Spatial Exploration and Analysis for the Tufts Community"
12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: Austin Room
Tisch Library, Medford Campus
Presenters: Patrick Florance, Senior GIS Specialist, and Barbara Parmenter, GIS Research Specialist and Lecturer, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
"Sparking Connections: Learning Tools, Learning Objects, Learning Objectives"
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Date: Thursday, September 28, 200612:00pm-1:30pm
Location: Austin Room
Tisch Library, Medford Campus
Event Description: The session will showcase rich course resources with untapped potential available here at Tufts and via the Web from other sources (course and collaboration tools, library licensed resources and databases, discipline-specific repositories, learning object repositories). Once you've identified particular course objectives and challenges, where can you look to discover corresponding resources to meet your goals and a ddress learning challenges? We'll debut the suite of Spark tools, including both a blog and a wiki tool for the Tufts community. We'll also note how Tufts course learning platforms can provide a framework and suite of tools for delivering course content and structuring course activities. Finally, we'll showcase education-focused repositories, which offer a mechanism for sharing peer-reviewed course materials and tools that have been designed to support specific kinds of conceptual and methodological learning across areas of study. Join us to discover some of the particularly fertile grounds for harvesting resources.
"Social Computing Tools in the Curriculum"Date: Thursday, July 13, 2006, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: Austin Room, Tisch Library, Medford Campus
Event Description: The current college-age demographic is quite comfortable with social computing tools - email, blogs, wikis, instant messaging and online collaboration through multiplayer online games. Katie Livingston Vale discussed ways in which MIT has been experimenting with incorporating social computing tools into the undergraduate curriculum and admissions process, and how students' experiences with online games may shape their ability and interest in collaborative learning projects. Katie Vale received undergraduate degrees from Brown in Cognitive Science and Anthropology and a doctorate from Boston University in Curriculum and Teaching with a specialization in Educational Technology. She is the manager of the Curriculum Integration Support team within MIT Academic Computing.
"On the Horizon"
Date: Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location: Burden Lounge, Engineering Building, Medford Campus
Event Description: This "On the Horizon" brown bag session provided a chance for us to discuss the 2006 NMC/ELI Horizon Report , along with Bryan Alexander's Web 2.0 article from the EDUCAUSE Review. We addressed the questions: What do you find most interesting, provocative, or promising in these descriptions of technologies on our horizon? How might the new technologies serve academic communities at Tufts?
20th University Teaching Conference
The 20th Annual University Conference on Teaching and Learning was held on December 10, 2006, on the Boston campus. The theme of this conference was "Considering Ethics in Teaching, Learning, and Research."
Veterinary Medicine Mini Teaching Symposium
The 2007 Veterinary Medicine Mini-Symposium on Teaching and Learning with Technology was held on Thursday, October 19. The program entitled, “Veterinary Medicine: Classroom Teaching and Outcomes Assessments,” featured: Dr. Deborah Kochevar, the new Dean of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, speaking on "Driving Evidence-Based Decision Making in Veterinary Medical Education through Outcomes Assessment;" and "Broadening Your Teaching Repertoire in Fact Intensive Classes," a presentation by Linda Jarvin, Deputy Director of Tufts new Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
In the afternoon, three workshops were offered focusing on how to improve learning through the effective use of technology in the classroom. Veterinary School faculty Drs. Kumar and Solano will be discussing how they have used Tufts University Science Knowledge Database (TUSK) tools in their teaching. Peg Keenan and Gina Siesing of University Information Technology (UIT) will be offering, “Getting Started with Classroom Response Systems.”
Health Sciences Mini-Symposium on Teaching and Learning
Fall 2004
"Maximizing Learning and Student Contact through Formative Assessment
and Technology"
Hosted by Tufts University Academic Technology, School of Medicine,
School of Dental Medicine, and the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman
School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Date: Friday, October 15, 2004
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location:
Behrakis Auditorium, Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition
Sciences and the Sackler Building, Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
The 2nd Annual Health Sciences Mini-Institute featured three guest
speakers who worked with students in the classroom or in
clinical teaching encounters to maximize learning.
In the keynote presentation, “The Challenge of Too Much Information – How technology can help faculty and students manage content while maximizing learning,” Dr. Harry Goldberg, Assistant Dean and Director of the Office of Academic Computing at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, offered examples from projects at Johns Hopkins that included using online self-assessment examinations, interactive slides, and streaming lectures.
In the second part of the program, participants chose between two workshops:
Workshop 1: Integrating Teaching into Your Busy Practice
Janet Hafler, Ed.D, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical
School (Medical Education) and Director for Faculty Development in the
Office of Educational Development presented an interactive,
case-based workshop. Participants had the opportunity to view
actual videotape clips of clinical teaching encounters to stimulate
discussion of the skills needed to integrate teaching into busy clinical
days. The "lessons learned" and "teaching tips" were applicable to
any type of clinical practice, or even any teacher-learner encounter
where there is close mentorship.
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Workshop 2: Assessing Student Learning and Understanding with Technology
Dr. Rafael E. Ortega, Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Boston
University School of Medicine, presented his use of Classroom
Response Systems (CRS) and multimedia in the classroom to fill gaps in
student learning, among other instructional goals.
Susan Albright, Director of the Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase
(TUSK) and Paula Vincini, Instructional Design Specialist with AT, also
also offered a short workshop prior to Dr. Ortega’s presentation, on using
the TUSK quiz tool to create self-assessment quizzes with feedback.
Fall 2005
From Theory to Practice: Dynamic Teaching and Learning in the Health Sciences
The program included a plenary presentation by Ed Neal, PhD, Director of Faculty Development at the University of North Carolina Center for Teaching and Learning, entitled Bridging the Gap between Didactic and Clinical Instruction. In this workshop, participants reviewed a variety of methods to help them more closely align clinical and didactic instruction by employing active learning and inquiry-based approaches in both instructional venues.
After the plenary presentation, participants chose between two additional sessions: a workshop on creating strong multiple choice questions for the clinical sciences presented by Dr. Neal or a demonstration of TUSK’s new Case Simulation Tool offered by the TUSK staff.
Veterinary Medicine Mini-Symposium for Teaching and Learning
February, 2005
AT's 2nd Annual Mini-Institute for the Veterinary Science, “Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Defined in the Context of Veterinary Medicine,” addressed the following questions : How has EBM changed the way veterinary faculty teach and prepare students? How can technology support the teaching of EBM?
Dr. Stanley R. Robertson, D.V.M., M.P.H., Associate Professor Department of Pathobiology and Population Medicine; and Coordinator, Veterinary Informatics and Extension Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University's College of Veterinary Medicine presented on the topic of EBM.
After Dr. Robertson’s presentation, Susan Albright and Steven Simon of the Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase (TUSK) offered a workshop on the TUSK Quiz Tool and Grade Book workshop.
University Teaching Conferences
December, 2004
Is Everybody Learning?: Teaching in the Diverse Classroom
The 18th Tufts University Conference on Teaching and Learning
When: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Friday, December 10
Where: The Cabot Intercultural Center
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford Campus
Sponsors: Tufts University Office of the Provost
University Committee on Teaching and Faculty Development
Academic Technology
The conference theme – Is Everybody Learning? Teaching in the Diverse
Classroom – focused on new paradigms for teaching all students through
innovative instructional methods and awareness. The conference offered
ideas on new pedagogical frameworks and interactive teaching strategies that
helped learners of all abilities and backgrounds master and apply disciplinary content, skills and knowledge.
Guest speakers offered multidisciplinary perspectives on the issue of
diversity in the classrooms with ideas and strategies that can be applied in
many content areas. Featured presentations include:
Keynote Presentation: Dysfunctional Illusions of Rigor: Key Lessons from the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Craig E. Nelson, Professor of Biology and Public and Environmental Affairs,
Indiana University in Bloomington
Applications to Increase Achievement and Equity without Sacrificing Quality
Craig E. Nelson, Professor of Biology and Public and Environmental Affairs,
Indiana University in Bloomington
Walking in Each Other’s Shoes….A Workshop on Intercultural Awareness
Linda Pololi, MD, Visiting Scholar, Brandeis University,
Women’s Studies Research Center
Teaching Diversity Using the Visual Arts
Jennie Congleton, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Fine Arts Department
College Misericordia
In addition to morning workshops focusing on diversity, afternoon workshops
were offered on teaching with technology at Tufts.
Spring 2006
Learning Assessment Challenges and Solutions
19th University Teaching Conference
The 19th University Conference on Teaching and Learning, entitled Learning Assessment Challenges and Solutions, featured a keynote presentation by Robert Sternberg, the new Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Director of the PACE Center. In his talk, entitled "Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized," Dean Sternberg described how we can teach to all students, rather than just some of them, and techniques for improving and assessing student learning.
A panel of Tufts faculty followed Dean Sternbergï’s presentation with a discussion of the challenges of assessing student learning in their schools and how they are meeting those challenges. Conference participants then had an opportunity to further discuss the issues raised in assessing for learning breakout groups.
The afternoon was devoted to a host of technical workshops and demonstrations designed to show participants how technology can be used to improve assessment.
