2008 MCC Conference on Teaching and Learning
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- Promoting Learning in Higher Education: Using Scholarly Teaching to Move from Instruction to Learning
- 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Friday, August 22, 2008
- Navajo Room, Kirk Student Center
- Mesa Community College
- For more information, contact Jonelle Moore
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To Register or Submit a Presentation Proposal
Register and submit a presentation proposal from the Conference Website. See below for conference logistics.
Conference Goals
The goals of the 2008 Mesa Conference on Teaching and Learning are:
- Recognize the significant contributions to improving teaching and learning by so many of our faculty and staff.
- Promote scholarly teaching for all faculty to improve our effectiveness and to serve the spirit of our FEP requirement.
- Publicly communicate the scholarly teaching and scholarship of teaching and learning by faculty and staff.
- Promote institutional learning and transformation by developing an academic community focused on enhancing teaching and learning.
The philosophy of this conference is that we must make our efforts to improve teaching and learning public to all our colleagues as well as to our community. Public communication serves many functions including building college-wide community, allowing others to learn from our efforts, recognizing all your work to improve teaching and learning, and justifying the investment of the college in our efforts. Therefore, it is really important that you plan to participate. Please plan to attend either as a presenter if you have a teaching and learning project that you would like to share (please see the link to the presentation proposal form at the bottom of the page) or as an observer if you wish to learn from the work of your colleagues.
The conference will showcase local teaching and learning projects, but we are also fortunate that VCAA Maria Harper-Marinick will open the conference. In addition, 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 presentations to posters and laptop presentations (see below). All presentations will relate the project 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/staff development.
This conference is organized by the Faculty and Professional Learning Community (FPLC) Program and sponsored by Vice Chancellor Maria Harper-Marinick and the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. FPLC members will be sharing their work at this conference along with MIL Fellows and recipients of Sabbaticals, Collaborative SOTL Grants, Learning Grants, etc., so there will be a wide variety of interesting and informative presentations. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Vice Chancellor Maria Harper-Marinick and the MCLI.
Conference Schedule
| Time | Activity | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome | Jonelle Moore, FPLC Director, with President Pan and VPAA |
| 9:15 a.m. | VCAA title TBA | VCAA Maria Harper-Marinick |
| 9:30 a.m. | John Tagg Keynote Title | John Tagg, Professor of English, Palomar College |
| 10:30 a.m. | Title TBA | Presenter TBA |
| 10:45 a.m. | Title TBA | Presenter TBA |
| 11:00 a.m. | Title TBA | Presenter TBA |
| 11:15 a.m. | Title TBA | Presenter TBA |
| 11:30 a.m. | Poster Session | All |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Session Continues | All |
| 1:00 p.m. | Interactive Breakout Sessions | John Tagg and others TBA |
| Tentative Breakout Topics: | ||
| Tagg topic TBA | ||
| Setting up an FPLC program | ||
| Classroom Research | ||
| Sustainability | ||
| Human Subjects Researh: CRRCs and the IRB | ||
| 3:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
Register for the Conference
Register using the link on the Conference Website.
Conference Logistics
The Navajo Room will be available for Poster/Laptop Session setup from 8:00-9:00 a.m. before the opening session.
Navajo Room Arrangement
The Navajo Room will be set up with 3 different areas accommodating the different presentation formats.
- The central area of the Navajo Room will be set up with round tables for 150-200 people in front of a stage with podium and screen.
- The open wall space around the room will be set up for poster/laptop presentations with small tables (~40) for the poster and laptops. Some of these tables will have power.
- Breakout rooms are TBA.
Presentation Formats
Besides the invited speakers, there will be four presentation formats used in the conference.
- Poster presentations mounted on a folding or rigid poster board. Each poster will be on a table that will likely be against a wall.
- Laptop presentations are similar to the poster presentations except that a laptop can be used to deliver the content with only titles, headings, and names on the poster board. These presentations should be designed for relatively quick rotations.
- Breakout sessions on teaching and learning. Discussions should be designed to interactively engage participants or to inform them on a specific topic.
- Short talks from the conference podium (with or without powerpoint) will feature exemplary efforts to enhance teaching and learning or student success. They will be strictly limited to 15 minutes including time for questions.
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