Event Title
Partnering with Students
Location
Dolan School of Business Dining Room (104A)
Start Date
29-5-2014 9:15 AM
End Date
29-5-2014 12:00 PM
Session Type
Interactive Session
Description
Research demonstrates the importance of student engagement in learning. Faculty and colleges encourage that in diverse ways, including everything from undergraduate research to writing-intensive and community-based courses. What happens when go further, inviting students to join us in pedagogical planning and in research into how undergraduates learn? This interactive session will explore practical questions about and approaches to student-faculty partnerships in teaching and learning.
Topic Designation
Community-engaged teaching and scholarship, SoTL, Teaching & Learning
Presenter Bio(s)
Dr. Peter Felten is assistant provost, executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and of the Center for Engaged Learning, and associate professor of history at Elon University in the United States. He has published widely on engaged learning, academic development, and the scholarship of teaching and learning, including most recently Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2013). In spring 2014 his co-authored book Engaging Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning will be published by Jossey-Bass.
Partnering with Students
Dolan School of Business Dining Room (104A)
Research demonstrates the importance of student engagement in learning. Faculty and colleges encourage that in diverse ways, including everything from undergraduate research to writing-intensive and community-based courses. What happens when go further, inviting students to join us in pedagogical planning and in research into how undergraduates learn? This interactive session will explore practical questions about and approaches to student-faculty partnerships in teaching and learning.