Assurance of Learning (AOL) Workshops
Upcoming:
Past Workshops:
Flipped Learning
Friday, April 19, 2013; 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. in CWH 117
This workshop will introduce participants to the basic concepts of flipped learning where instructors reorganize learning experiences through consideration of the benefits of both online and face-to-face environments. Participants will examine their own use of classroom time and consider ways that it might be optimized by moving course components between in-class and out-of-class. Participants will be introduced to several software applications for creating learning resources, discuss instructional strategies useful in flipped learning and consider best practices for facilitating online and offline learning experiences.
Slides
More Teaching Strategies to Support Critical Thinking
Friday November 9; 2:15 -3:30 p.m. in CWH 117
Designing Assignments and Instructional
Practices to Promote Critical Thinking: a two-part workshop
using backward design principles to foster improvements in
critical thinking
Thursday September 20; 2:15 – 4:30 p.m.
CWH 334
or
Friday September 21; 2:15 -4:30 p.m.
CWH 117
Part 1: A Working Session to Design and
Refine Assignments that Promote Critical Thinking
(approximately 75 min)
A brief presentation will highlight some
important assignment design principles. Then instructors will
work in pairs or small teams to design or redesign an assignment
or question to better address the
CBA critical thinking objectives and make critical thinking
“visible”. Come prepared with an idea about a course topic or
learning gap for which you want to design an assignment, or
bring an existing assignment that you would like to improve to
better address critical thinking skills. To encourage
collaboration, especially in core courses, you are encouraged to
talk to colleagues teaching the same course to identify this
topic or learning gap in advance. This session will end with
sharing of approaches as well as hurdles. Assignments or drafts
will be electronically shared to create a pool of ideas which
operationalize the objective in your particular context.
Part 2: Integrating Instructional
Practices that Promote Critical Thinking (approximately 60
min)
Even with well-designed assignments,
students may not understand elements of critical thinking. How
do we “teach” critical thinking? How do we build learning
experiences that prepare students to do what we expect them to
do? When registering, you will indicate your interest in a list
of instructional tactics, and at least three of these will be
reviewed in the workshop. Participants then discuss how/whether
the approach would scaffold skills for the assignment designed
in Part 1.
A follow-up gathering is planned for
participants in January to share experiences tried during the
fall semester. The hope is to generate a pool of examples to
help instructors refine strategies to address critical thinking
skills.
Designing Assignments that Promote
Critical Thinking
4/20/2012
Workshop was designed for CBA faculty to address how assignments
could be designed and taught to better promote critical thinking
skills
Presented by Center for Advancement of
Teaching and Learning
Efficient and Effective Feedback:
Responding to Student Writing in Business Courses
10/28/2011
Workshop was designed for CBA faculty to specifically address
faculty concerns about how to efficiently provide meaningful
feedback to students about their writing.
Presented by Center for Advancement of
Teaching and Learning
Improving Students' Writing in
Business Courses
9/30/2011
Workshop was designed for CBA faculty to address broad ideas about
writing improvement and generate discussion around these ideas.
Presented by Center for Advancement of
Teaching and Learning