Location
Dolan School of Business Dining Room (104A)
Start Date
31-5-2013 12:00 PM
End Date
31-5-2013 2:00 PM
Session Type
Interactive Session
Description
Hybrid pedagogy. Interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship. Internationalization. Cross-institutional funding. These recent trends are evidence of the constantly changing landscape of higher education, one in which collaboration is now a necessity as never before. Despite the fact that many of us were trained to work in isolation as academics, it is now a requirement to collaborate with administrators, academic technologists, students, and other faculty on a constant basis. In this plenary, explore the benefits and challenges of these new collaborative relationships and find out how collaborative ventures may be the answer to the most pressing issues in higher education that are impacting teaching and learning. Together, we will discover the possibilities for enrichment that collaboration can bring to our teaching practices and discuss concrete strategies for how to prepare for collaborative efforts.
Topic Designation
Mentoring
Presenter Bio(s)
Dr. Katie Linder is the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. Katie's mission is to help those in the higher education community (including students, faculty, staff, and administrators) thrive on their pathways to academic and scholarly success. Katie frequently consults with and presents to faculty, administrators, and graduate students on topics such as teaching tips and techniques, strategies to increase scholarly productivity, best practices in academic administration and leadership, and achieving work/life balance.
Katie earned her BA in English Literature from Whitworth University in Spokane, WA, and her MA and PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University. Her research interests include cultural studies of education, academic writing development, and faculty development. Some of her recent articles can be found in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development; Red Feather: An International Journal of Children's Visual Culture; and the Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning.
Coming Together: Collaboration as a Tool of Change for Teaching and Learning
Dolan School of Business Dining Room (104A)
Hybrid pedagogy. Interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship. Internationalization. Cross-institutional funding. These recent trends are evidence of the constantly changing landscape of higher education, one in which collaboration is now a necessity as never before. Despite the fact that many of us were trained to work in isolation as academics, it is now a requirement to collaborate with administrators, academic technologists, students, and other faculty on a constant basis. In this plenary, explore the benefits and challenges of these new collaborative relationships and find out how collaborative ventures may be the answer to the most pressing issues in higher education that are impacting teaching and learning. Together, we will discover the possibilities for enrichment that collaboration can bring to our teaching practices and discuss concrete strategies for how to prepare for collaborative efforts.