Greetings!
This conference might be of interest to STEM faculty:
NSF-funded SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) courses and programs aim to improve undergraduate science education by focusing on real-world problems. SENCER goals include enhancing
student engagement in STEM courses and helping students connect science learning to their other coursework.
To learn more about the SENCER model, please consider attending this year’s
SENCER Summer Institute, to be held at UNC Asheville
(Asheville, NC) July 31 to August 4, 2014. Post-Institute Implementation Grants to facilitate new SENCER course development will be awarded on a competitive basis after the Institute.
Upcoming events at DCAL:
Leveraging Openly Available Course Materials To Enhance Student Learning, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Tuesday, April 8, 2014
What are the benefits to student learning of openly available and reusable materials? What resources are available to you for discovering, reusing, remixing, and redistributing educational materials for your courses,
and licensing your own for reuse too?
Learn about the teams available to help you develop your content for new ways of learning in both the edX and residential courses. Find out about open education resources and tools, and how to apply Fair use and Creative
Commons licenses to your own course materials.
Teaching Science Seminar-Science Textbooks: Past, Present, and Future, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, April 10, 2014
An article in Change magazine in 1992 said that “textbooks have never been more beautiful, sophisticated, or useful. The textbook ‘package’ is a premier vehicle for teaching and
learning.” As an author, John Kotz (SUNY Distiguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus), believes this was and still is true. However, market forces such as cost and the rise of social media, tablets, online courses (MOOCs), and OERs are changing the landscape
rapidly. His publisher said recently that “it is like being in a jungle now,” and that “this is an interesting time if you have the stomach for it.” In this seminar Professor Kotz plans to survey the current situation and solicit opinions and ideas for the
future of materials used in science education.
Talking about Language and Culture (Monthly DIscussion Group), 2:30pm - 4:00pm, Thursday, April 10, 2014
Come share ideas about teaching languages and culture, get to know each other better, and create a community of teachers who care about language
Register for this discussion: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event.php?id=620543
Lunch is provided at all midday events
We hope to see you at DCAL-
Elaine
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