CETL Archives
Book Talks Archive - Fall 2001
SCSU Excellence in Teaching Journal, Vol. 6 & 7
Presenters: Rex Veeder, Libby Brunsvold, and Jake
Oetting, Editors
Date: Wed., September 19, 2001
Time: 9:00 - 11:00 or 11:00 - 1:00
Location: Atwood St. Croix Room
Description: The dual-volume Vol. 6 (2000) & 7 (2001) of the Journal was distributed to faculty late Spring 2001 semester. New faculty received a copy in their New Faculty Orientation Packet, distributed in august. Read about experiential learning, service-learning, a films approach to class, teaching and security issues in the electronic age, making teaching learner-centered, a discipline-specific research class, and a description of a first-year research and development project. Some authors will be able to join us.
Promoting Civility: A Teaching Challenge
Presenter: Steven M. Richardson, Editor
Date: Wed., Oct. 31, 2001
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Location: MC 114/115
Facilitators: Joe Melcher (PSY)
Description: Nine articles make up this book, part of the New Directions for Teaching and Learning series. There has been much discussion about the decline of civility both in the classrooom and among our peers. This book provides both a theoretical analysis of the problem and some very pragmatic ideas to resolve disputes and prevent them from arising in the first place.
About Learning
Presenter: Bernice McCarthy
Date: Wed., Nov. 14, 2001
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Atwood St. Croix Room
Facilitators: Brad Sleeper (BLAW) and Vicky McIntyre
(BCIS)
Description: In every facet of our lives from personal relations to problem-solving, teaching, managing, and even communicating the way we learn defines who we are. McCarthy explores the complex, often startling ways in which learning styles influence our lives. It offers a penetrating look into the structure of learning: how we encounter and absorb new information, how radically different our methods can be, and how those differences affect the ways we deal with ourselves and with one another.
Student Learning in the Information Age
Presenter: Patricia Senn Breivik
Date: Thurs., Dec. 6, 2001
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Location: MC114/115
Facilitators: Melinda Dermody (LR&TS Access & Distance
Librarian) and Tom Hergert(LR&TS InforMedia Services)
Description: Breivik offers an in-depth examination of resource-based learning as an important new paradigm for higher education, shifting the focus from teaching to learning by requiring students to select their own learning materials from a wide range of real-world information resources. A resource-based approach helps students assume more responsibility for their own learning, and it provides a framework to help educators work with campus information specialists to create resource-based learning programs.
