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Symposium on technologies for engaging students
Editor's note: Registation has closed for this symposium. 11:15 a.m., Sept. 26, 2006--“Emerging Technology for Student Engagement,” a daylong symposium hosted by UD's Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education (ITUE) is set for 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday, Sept. 29, in the Rodney Room in the Perkins Student Center. The symposium will address new technologies used in college classrooms to facilitate learning and will focus largely on the use of clickers, wireless keypads used with a receiver to enable engagement, polling and verification of understanding in lecture halls, where student participation is often difficult to gauge. UD signed an agreement earlier this summer with the clicker manufacturer GTCO CalComp and subsequently introduced clickers in selected classes this semester. The symposium, which is free and open to all interested members of the University community, will feature several guest speakers, including Neil Carlson, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Doug Duncan, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Colorado. Carlson's research focuses on the role of the limbic system in learning and species-typical behavior. Duncan, during his tenure in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, helped begin a trend of modernizing planetariums. He also served as national education coordinator for the American Astronomical Society, which represents the 6,000 professional astronomers in the U.S. Thomas Apple, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Janet DeVry, manager of IT-User Services; Thomas DiLorenzo, professor and chairperson of the Department of Psychology; George Watson, senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; James Wingrave, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Carrie Smith, assistant professor of psychology; Kalmia Kniel-Tolbert, assistant professor of animal and food sciences; Mark Serva, assistant professor of accounting and MIS; Beth Ann Morling, assistant professor of psychology; James Hoffman, professor of psychology; and Robert Simons, professor of psychology, will be the presenters and moderators represented from UD. The symposium is sponsored by UD's Department of Psychology, the College of Arts and Sciences, IT-User Services and other campus units, with support from Pearson Allyn & Bacon/Longman. |
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