University of Delaware ITUE

Emerging Technology for Student Engagement

Rodney Room, Perkins Student Center
University of Delaware

September 29, 2006

This symposium will focus on the Personal Response System (Clicker) technology and technologies associated with other active learning strategies to provide a forum for discussion related to enhanced student engagement. We will have nationally recognized leaders present on exciting ways to promote student involvement and campus leaders offer information about strategies that have worked for them.

Registration forms for UD participants:
Full day (includes lunch):
http://present.smith.udel.edu/calendar/detail.php?classid=979

Morning only:
http://present.smith.udel.edu/calendar/detail.php?classid=965

Lunch:
http://present.smith.udel.edu/calendar/detail.php?classid=964

Afternoon only:
http://present.smith.udel.edu/calendar/detail.php?classid=963

The first 100 participants to register will receive complimentary copies of "Clickers in the Classroom: How to Enhance Science Teaching Using Classroom Response Systems" [book] by Douglas Duncan and "Neuroscience Animations" [CD] by Neil R. Carlson

For off-campus participants:
Registration may be made by contacting
Judy Fingerle at fingerle@psych.udel.edu or 302-831-6386.

Program

8:30-9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:05

Welcome
Tom Apple, Dean of the College of Arts and Science, UD

9:05-10:00

Making a Large Classroom Feel Small
(including information on Peer Learning)
Doug Duncan, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Colorado
10:00-0:15

Technology/Learning Resources at UD
Janet de Vry, Manager, IT-User Services, UD

10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 PRS (Clicker) Presentations
James Wingrave, Asst. Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UD
Carrie Smith, Asst. Professor, Psychology, UD
Tom DiLorenzo, Chair and Professor, Psychology, UD
11:00-12:00 How to Engage Students by Using 'Clickers' (Workshop)
Doug Duncan (Moderator)
12:00- 1:00 Lunch (provided by UD)
1:00-2:00 Active Learning Strategies and Technology
Neil Carlson, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts
2:00-2:45 Active Learning Presentations
Kali Kniel, Asst. Professor, Animal & Food Sciences, UD
Mark Serva, Asst. Professor, MIS and Accounting, UD
James Hoffman and Robert Simons, Professor, Psychology, UD
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00

How do you know when it works? (Panel Discussion)
Panelists: Doug Duncan, Neil Carlson, and Beth Morling, Asst. Professor, Psychology, UD
Moderator: George Watson, Sr. Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UD

Sponsors: University of Delaware: Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, IT-User Services, and ITUE; Pearson Allyn & Bacon/Longman.

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Last updated September 20, 2006.
Copyright Univ. of Delaware, 2006.