ITUE concludes fall workshops

3:48 p.m., Dec. 2, 2004--UD’s Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education is completing this semester’s workshop series on “Problem-Based Learning (PBL): From Ideas to Solutions through Communication” on Friday, Dec. 3.

The workshops were designed to help faculty members and teaching assistants incorporate active learning into classrooms with presentations, sample problems and exercises, followed by plans and material for integrating PBL into fellows’ own teaching. Emphasis was put on the ways that technology can support PBL. The fall program can be viewed at [www.udel.edu/inst/fall2004/].

ITUE is offering a January introductory session, “Problem-Based Learning: From Ideas to Solutions through Communication,” for faculty and teaching assistants, with sign-in and refreshments at 8:30 a.m. and workshops from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, Jan. 19-21. There is no fee for UD faculty and staff. The deadline to register is Friday, Jan. 7. For information and to register, visit [www.udel.edu/inst/jan2005/].

Another session will be offered in the spring from Wednesday-Friday, June 15-17.

Participating fall 2004 UD faculty and graduate teaching assistants, listed by college and academic unit, were:

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Kali Kniel, animal and food science
Penny Rodrick-Williams, entomology and applied ecology and John Bernard, food and resource economics

College of Arts and Sciences
Beth Mineo Mollica, applied science and engineering laboratory and linguistics
Nancy Breslin, art
Matthew Kieber-Emmons, chemistry and biochemistry
Charlene Bunnel, Bruce Heggen, both English
Gilda Kelsy, Dorry Ross, Dee Baer, all English and University Writing Center
John Madsen, geology
John Gizis, physics and astronomy

Lerner College of Business and Economics
Diane Wright, accounting and Management Information Systems
Christine Kydd, business administration

College of Engineering
Matthew Gage, chemical engineering

College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy
Maria Teresa Moreno, Carol Wong, both education and
Jonathan Justice, urban affairs

College of Marine Studies
James Corbett, assistant professor
Doug Miller, associate professor, both marine studies

University staff
Paul Hyde, Information Technologies-User Services
Frank Newton and James Tweedy, both Residence Life

UD Workshop facilitators included Deborah Allen, biological sciences; Stephen Berhnardt, English; Barbara Duch, College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy; Sue Groh and Harold White, chemistry and biochemistry; Mark Serva, accounting and Management Information Systems; and George Watson, physics and astronomy.

Several returning ITUE fellows and other faculty presented course transformation projects, and students participated in a panel discussion. In addition, there were three presenters from off campus--Jennifer Adkins from the Nature Conservancy, Bill Briggs from the University of Colorado at Denver and David Edgell from the Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination.

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