Promoting Learning in Higher Education:
Using Scholarly Teaching to Move from Instruction to Learning

Friday, August 22, 2008 at Mesa Community College in the Kirk Student Center, Navajo Room.

Goals:

  • Recognize the significant contributions to improving teaching and learning by so many of our faculty memebers and staff;
  • Promote scholarly teaching for all faculty members to improve our effectiveness;
  • Publicly communicate the scholarly teaching and scholarship of teaching and learning by faculty members and staff; and
  • Promote institutional learning and transformation by developing an academic community focused on enhancing teaching and learning.

Keynote speaker, John Tagg will be our keynote speaker and will lead an interactive session in the afternoon. John Tagg has written extensively on teaching and learning and is well known for his paper coauthored with Robert Barr in Change magazine: From Teaching to Learning-A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education. He has recently published the book The Learning Paradigm College. He comes to us from Palomar College where he is a Professor of English.

A variety of presentations will be included, ranging from the keynote and featured faculty member presentations to posters and laptop presentations (see agenda). All presentations will relate to the relevant literature and include some evidence of direct or indirect impact on learning. Presentations are expected to address topics such as reports of classroom research, theoretical frameworks for curriculum development and assessment, or progress in faculty member and staff development.

 

For more information about this event, contact Eric Leshinskie 480-731-8300 or Jonelle Moore 480-461-7351.