ABSTRACTS - Room 101

All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus

1-101 // Making Learning Significant: Integrating the human dimension into course design

HANDS-ON WORKSHOP (1 hour 45 minutes)

Presenters:
     Dr. Lindsay Meador - Accreditation and Senior Program Manager; School of Continuing and Professional Studies; Washington University in St. Louis
     Dr. Jerol Enoch - Instructional Designer; St. Charles Community College
     Dr. Michael Porterfield - Educational Technology Manager; McKendree University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 101

MODE: Face-to-Face (Face-to-Face Presenters + Face-to-Face Attendees)

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how Fink's taxonomy of significant learning can be applied to course design to create lasting, impactful, rich learning experiences for their students. We will examine the key components of significant learning and how to integrate dimensions like caring, human understanding, and learning how to learn into course goals, assessments, and activities. Educators will leave with concrete strategies to incorporate the human element into their teaching.

3-101 // A 100% Guaranteed Method for Student Participation and Engagement

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Jesse Kavadlo - Professor of English and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning; Maryville University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.; Room 101

MODE: Blended (Face-to-Face Presenter + Online/Face-to-Face Attendees)

Instructors know the pain of preparing terrific questions for student discussion only to be met with silence. This presentation will discuss ways of managing expectations with students, creating pre-class work designed to lead into classroom conversations, ways of structuring in-class questions, and use of student self-assessments and follow-up assignments to help ensure that students talk and listen during class time.