Note: This page will be updated with session descriptions, schedule, and poster descriptions as they evolve.

Interactive Sessions (75 minutes each)

We welcome proposals for presentations and interactive sessions on INNOVATION IN INSTRUCTION in higher education in the 21st Century. We particularly are interested in sessions that relate to the theme of the conference through one of the following tracks:

Bridging the Gap with Application
of Skills and Content

How should we be preparing our students for their personal and professional lives as adults? This track supports proposals that address how higher education can prepare students to make an impact beyond the classroom.

Potential topics: educating for democratic participation; balancing traditional liberal arts goals with professional needs; experiential education; and innovations and applications of technology.

Potential topics: how basic learning principles can inform teaching; the neuroscience of learning; social and developmental social contributions to creativity, learning, motivation, and memory.

Assessing our Work

What are our goals? How do we know we are reaching our goals? Increasingly, higher education is being held accountable for meeting the educational needs of the population. This track supports proposals that address the role of assessment in higher education.

Potential topics: current trends in assessment; limitations of assessment; assessing experiential and other non-traditional teaching methods.

Keeping Ourselves and Our Students Inspired

How do we keep our students and ourselves inspired? Sometimes students and teachers become discouraged, lose sight of the big picture, or even become bored with a class. It’s easy to become distracted or over committed to things outside the classroom. What can we do?
This track supports proposals that address the themes of inspiration for faculty and students.

Potential topics: developing a teaching philosophy; maintaining enthusiasm across the semester (or years); stagnant periods in the semester; inspiring student enthusiasm for learning.

Poster / Exhibit Session

The poster session is devoted to best practices in teaching and learning. Presentations in form of posters, table exhibits, or table demonstrations are invited. These proposals may address best practices in any of the aforementioned tracks or in teaching and learning more generally. Guidelines for space allocations and poster construction will be provided when notification of acceptance is given.