Greetings from UW System

9:15 AM to 9:30 AM

Fay Yokomizo Akindes, Ph.D.

Director, Office of Professional & Instructional Development (OPID)

Carleen Vande Zande, Ph.D.

Associate Vice President, Academic Programs & Faculty Advancement

Cultivating Community with Digital Pedagogies

9:30 AM to 10:45 AM

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Cultivating Community with Digital Pedagogies   Encouraging Discussion around Video Lectures

Building Community Critical Thinking & Knowledge through Peer Feedback Process   Relational Cultural Theory an Approach to Collaborative Teaching & Learning

Diane Reddy Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Kathy Pinkowksy Letters & Science Information Technology, Andrew Cole Communication, Aisha Kendrick Nursing, Julia Snethen Nursing, Christopher Charles Peters Nursing, UW-Milwaukee, Lauren Bishop Social Work, UW-Madison, Ann Friesema Clinical Mental Health Counseling, UW-Parkside

Moderators: Kathy Pinkowsky, UW-Milwaukee and Sarah Riforgiate, UW-Milwaukee

A multi-institutional panel of instructors will share the digital pedagogies they use to cultivate community. Additionally, several students involved in one of the communities cultivated will share their perspectives. The session will introduce the digital pedagogies used to cultivate community with brief videos. The video portion of the session will be followed by a live participant-panelist exchange during which participants can directly ask panelists questions and engage in rich discussion of the pedagogical approaches featured.

This session was curated by OPID’s Digital Pedagogies Committee chaired by Diane Reddy (UW-Milwaukee). Committee members: Abhimanyu Ghosh (UW-Stout), Mary Beth Leibham (UW-Eau Claire), Terry McGovern (UW-Parkside), Regina Nelson (UW-Platteville), Sarah Riforgiate (UW-Milwaukee), Susan Wildermuth (UW-Whitewater), Houa Xiong (UW-Oshkosh).


Keynote Plenary

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

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Moderator and Introduction of Speaker 

Sylvia Tiala, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning, & Leadership, UW-Stout; Member, OPID Executive Committee; Chair, Signature Programs Committee

Teaching & Learning Science in the 21st Century

Carl Wieman, Ph.D. Professor of Physics and Education, Stanford University

Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science and engineering have advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Education in these subjects, however, guided primarily by tradition and dogma, has remained largely medieval. Recent research on how people learn, combined with careful experiments in university classrooms, is now revealing much more effective ways to teach and evaluate learning than is currently used in most classes. I will discuss these results, what they tell us about principles of learning, and their effective implementation in science courses. This research is setting the stage for a new approach to teaching that can provide the relevant and effective science education for all students that is needed for the 21st century. It also shows better ways to evaluate teaching quality, and it reveals that traditional attitudes about learning and the introductory science curriculum can be inadvertently sustaining systemic discrimination.