Conferences
Oct 26: There is still time to Register for an iPod!
Sign up to join us at the national faculty development conference in Milwaukee, WI, over the last weekend in October. For those of you attending, send us an email so we look for you down there! For additional information contact:
http://www.podnetwork.org/conferences/2005/
Oct 14: Course Redesign at a Weekend Seminar
Ever had a course you wanted to change making it a pleasure to teach, while increasing student learning? Ever get the chance to do it? It takes time! Many of us have great visions to redesign our courses, but the complexities of course design get in the way. Here is your chance to learn about course redesign from people who have been very successful!
CTL has partnered with the National Center for Academic Transformation to offer this Weekend Seminar. Students in more than 30 courses have benefited from the efforts of faculty using the NCAT methodology to redesign their course structures, teaching methods, assessment and evaluation. This seminar is available to all interested parties who want to learn more about course design! Attendance is required for anyone possibly intending to enter the recently announced grant competition, Designed for Learning. For information about both the grants competition and the weekend seminar, please visit:
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/programs/special_Int/dfl.html
Oct 28-29: Register for Fall Discipline Workshop
Writing and Literature: Teaching New Audience and Each Other. Location: Inver Hills Community College It is expected that the makeup of student populations in the system will change dramatically over the next 10 years. Through the growing presence of non-traditional students, online learners, and non-native speakers among the populations, English departments in the system are continuing to redefine the needs of students. This workshop would provide a forum for instructors to discuss their new approaches to teaching both writing and literature, including teaching the changing populations of MnSCU students.
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/facdev/user_event-list.php?eventtype=discipline_workshop&eid=30
Nov 3-5: Program Shaping Up for ITeach Conference!
The registration deadline for this year's ITeach Conference is October 20. Location: Hennepin Technical College, Brooklyn Park. The Friday program includes over 30 concurrent sessions, 4 extended-length sessions, and 8 mini sessions. Mix and match lengths to meet your learning objectives. Sessions are designed for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. The Saturday program will focus on teaching and learning within the Desire2Learn instructional management system environment. It includes over 15 hands-on, practical, interactive workshop sessions meant to develop participants' technological and pedagogical skills and knowledge.
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu/facdev/user_event-list.php?eventtype=conference&eid=10
Teaching for a Change: Focus on Learning
June 21 – 23, 2006 The Canyons Grand Summit, Park City Utah
Details available at www.teachingforachange.com
2006 Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching
March 17 – 18, 2006 at Kellogg West Ranch at Cal Poly Pomona
www.iats.com/conferences/west2006_info.html
