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Lanny Arvan

Making Our Own Learning Explicit and What That Means About Our Teaching

Lanny Arvan, Associate Professor of Economics, UIUC

How does a faculty member develop a sympathetic view of the students in her class and come to grip with the issues entailed in learning the course content that those students face? Suppose the faculty member is teaching a subject that she knows inside and out and hence the content doesn't pose intellectual challenges for her, but the subject is difficult for the students who have not had prior experience with the content. What should the instructor do to place herself in the shoes of her students and thereby develop an approach to instruction that makes sense for them? More...

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A New Generation of Learning

A New Generation of Learning: Diverse Students, Emerging Technologies, and a Sustainability Challenge

Mark Milliron

Monday, May 12, 2008

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Alice Campbell Alumni Center

free and open to the public

The mix of millennials, gen-x’ers, and baby boomers teaching and learning together make the provision of modern education a complex process. In addition, blended learning, mobile devices, gaming, social networking, high-impact presentation technologies, and analytics are bringing new twists and quick turns to our on-ground and online learning environments. What else is ahead? How much more can we take? How do we retain the human touch and advance higher learning? How do we make these learning environments sustainable? Come join the conversation about how this new generation of learning is taking shape.

 


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