The Spotlight on Learning was held March 4 and
5, 2004, in Baker Center.
Each annual "Spotlight
on Learning" learning fair explores how to engage students in the classroom.
Through poster sessions, roundtable discussions, demos, and concurrent sessions,
faculty share how they cultivate learning experiences that are truly learner-centered
and customized to the way individual students learn best.
This FREE two-day event
highlights the best practices of Ohio University's teacher-scholars.
The revised final version of the schedule is available now. This schedule was posted at 11:30 am on Tuesday, March 2, 2004, and includes both new sessions and room changes from the "final" schedule that was posted February 26. It is a 68 KByte Acrobat Reader (.pdf) file. Macintosh users may find that Preview fails to show all four pages, but Macintosh Acrobat Reader Version 6 will display and print all four pages correctly.
Register for This Event
- Though registration is not required for attending this event, registering will assist us in determining appropriate presentation venues and accurate numbers for ordering refreshments.
Georgetown University
Randy Bass is Executive
Director of
Georgetown's Center for
New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS, pronounced "CANDLES"),
a University-wide center supporting faculty work in new learning and research
environments.
He is the director of the
Visible Knowledge Project
(VKP), a five-year scholarship of teaching project exploring the impact of
technology on learning in the humanities. In conjunction with the VKP, he
is also the Director of the
American Studies Crossroads
Project, an international project on technology and education in affiliation
with the American Studies Association, with major funding in the past by the
US Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary
Education and the Annenberg/CPB Project. In conjunction with the Crossroads
Project, Bass is the supervising editor of
Engines of Inquiry:
A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Studies, and
executive producer of the companion video,
Engines of Inquiry:
A Video Tour of Learning and Technology in American Culture Studies.
He has served a co-leader of the NEH-funded "New Media Classroom Project:
Building a National Conversation on Narrative Inquiry and Technology,"
in conjunction with the American Social History Project/Center for Media
and Learning (at the CUNY Graduate Center). He is also co-editor of the Electronic
Resources Editor for the Heath Anthology of American Literature (third edition,
Paul Lauter, ed.). He has been working with educational technology since
1986 and has directed or co-designed a number of electronic projects and
publications on the use of technology in teaching culture and history. For
several years he has served as a facilitator and consultant to the "American
Memory Fellows Program" of the National Digital Library of the Library of
Congress.
For 1998-99, he served as a Pew Scholar and Carnegie Fellow in conjunction
with the Pew-funded Carnegie Teaching Academy, for the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching. In 1999, he won the EDUCAUSE Medal for
outstanding achievement in information technology and undergraduate education.
Bass is Associate Professor of English and a member of the American
Studies Committee at Georgetown University. In 1993-4 he served as the
American Studies Keck Foundation Faculty Fellow at Georgetown. He is the
author of
Border
Texts: Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writers (Houghton Mifflin,
1999); and co-editor of Intentional Media: Reflections on Technology and
Learning in the Culture and History Classroom, a double issue of the journal
Works and Days (Fall, 1999).
(Source: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/bassbio.htm)
Berks Lehigh Valley College of Penn State
Maryellen Weimer is one of the nation's most highly
regarded authorities on effective college teaching. With over 25 years of
experience in the field, she is the editor of the
Teaching Professor*,
a monthly newsletter on college teaching with 20,000 subscribers.
Weimer served as the Associate Director of the National Center on Postsecondary
Teaching, Learning and Assessment for the U.S. Department of Education Research
and Development Center. The Center, a consortium of six universities, was
part of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Penn State University
where Dr. Weimer was a senior research associate. Currently, Dr. Weimer is
an Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning at the
Berks Lehigh Valley College of Penn State.
Dr. Weimer has edited or authored eight books, including
Classroom Communication:
Collected Readings for Effective Discussion and Questioning;
How Am I Teaching? Forms
and Activities for Acquiring Instructional Input; and
Teaching College: Collected
Readings for the New Instructor; and Teaching Tools, a collection of collaborative,
active and inquiry-based approaches to be used in conjunction with Biological
Perspectives, an NSF-funded introductory biology text, created by Biological
Sciences Curriculum Studies (BSCS). In June 2002, Jossey-Bass published her
latest book, Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice.
*If you are an Ohio University faculty member, you
have access to our online subscription to the Teaching Professor by
using the username and password you received in the mail last year. If you
are a new faculty member, and you attended the new faculty orientation, you
received a copy of the Teaching Professor along with the username
and password for online access. If you are an Ohio University faculty member
and have either not received your access information or have forgotten or
lost it, you may contact Anita Leach at leacha@ohio.edu to receive it.
Anita Leach updated this
page on April 28, 2004.
Please E-mail comments or
questions to learning@www.ohiou.edu.
