Good Morning- We have 2 interesting events next week: “Students Teaching What They Learn” as Positive Task Based Learning, 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Teachers usually learn the most in the classroom because they are most often doing the most. Research is showing that when we can get students to teach each other and others out of class, they tend to learn more, be more creative, and enjoy their classes more. The main innovation is for teachers to regularly assign the task to students to teach others the learning material, in and out of the classroom. When students know they are going to use the material out of class to teach others, and that is the homework each day, they listen and learn with more intent-participation (Rogoff, 2003). I support this with the results of 181 students over a five-year period who taught English affirmations songs to people in their social networks in Japan and how they reported teaching rushes and better learning in their published case studies when doing so. This session will be facilitated by Tim Murphey, Professor of English at Kanda University of International Studies (Japan). Professor Murphy is a widely-published and much acclaimed theoretician and practitioner of foreign language teaching and learning. His particular interests include the design of learning communities as well as scaffolding and the use of music in the foreign language classroom. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL), and the Guarini Institute for International Education at Dartmouth. Lunch will be provided, please register for this session here: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event.php?id=932277 Inside Dartmouth’s First Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Thursday, March 5, 2015 The first DartmouthX MOOC, Introduction to Environmental Science, is currently underway with 10,000 students enrolled. Join faculty member Andy Friedland and Instructional Designer Mike Goudzwaard for a brief presentation about designing and running this course. Followed by Q and A. We will cover questions including: * What does the MOOC look like to a student? * What does it look like “behind the scenes?” * What has worked and what hasn’t? * How many students have actually engaged with the course? Short answer: ~3,000 * What did it take to build the video portion of this course? This discussion will take place in Fairchild 101. Lunch will be provided, please register here: http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event.php?id=932367 See you at DCAL! Elaine Elaine Livingston Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) 102 Baker-Berry Library Hanover, NH 03755 p. 603-646-2655 f. 603-646-6906 e. [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> w. www.dartmouth.edu/~dcal<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dcal> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DCAL-GROUP-LIST list, click the following link: https://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=DCAL-GROUP-LIST