Conferences

Assessment Conferences

Conference start date: 02-17-2013
Conference end date: 12-10-2013
Location: Various

List of Assessment Conferences

2013 International Institute for SoTL Scholars and Mentors "Storytelling"

Conference start date: 05-30-2013
Conference end date: 06-02-2013
Location: Los Angeles, California

"You are invited to join our engaging and reflective conversations that explore how stories are key elements of our courses. We will investigate how stories convey meanings and enhance abstract concepts, how courses tell a story and can be constructed like a story, how autobiographical elements are relevant for our classes, how we frame and solve problems through narrative approaches, how stories can be used for research purposes, and much more. During the Institute we will allow ourselves to be drawn into great stories and to learn from great storytellers. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) serves as a lens by which we explore our teaching and our students’ learning. This year’s theme provides us with an incentive to reconsider and investigate our own teaching. SoTL projects are stories themselves; they start with a question or problem that emerges in our teaching, move through an investigation period, and reach an answer or solution that we can share and implement at the end. We will trace out the development and lessons we learn from our SoTL investigations and explore the research approaches that help us to better understand our teaching and our students’ learning. The Institute and this year’s theme encourage inter- and multidisciplinary conversations and invite a variety of disciplinary and methodological studies. Consider participating in IISSAM 2013 in one of three ways, as a scholar having your work-in-progress mentored; a poster-presenter, showing a project that is completed, nearly completed, or just at the beginning stages; an attendee, learning about SoTL and joining the conversation to share ideas and suggestions with other SoTL scholars. Storytelling is relevant for all types of teaching and learning, although it can take very different forms"

The 10th Annual Teaching Professor Conference

Conference start date: 05-31-2013
Conference end date: 06-02-2013
Location: Sheraton New Orleans, New Orleans

"The Teaching Professor Conference is a place where teachers connect. This conference provides an opportunity to learn effective pedagogical techniques and interact with colleagues committed to teaching and learning excellence. Whether you are a new or experienced faculty member, teaching assistant, adjunct faculty, dean, chair, or provost, you will learn something that helps you expand your teaching and learning efforts. The plenary and conference sessions will renew and energize you … not to mention the nonstop talk about teaching throughout the conference. If you are concerned about the needs of today’s college students and want to address them and, at the same time, keep standards high and push students to excel, this is the conference for you. We welcome you to join us in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA., May 31-June 2, 2013 where we’ll provide the place and you provide the desire to continue to learn what students need."

AACU Summer Institures

Conference start date: 06-01-2013
Conference end date: 08-04-2013
Location: Various

Summer Institutes AAC&U Summer Institutes offer campus teams a time and place for sustained collaborative work on a project of importance to their campus. Our three annual institutes include the Institute on General Education and Assessment; the Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, which is the “next generation” of the former Greater Expectations Institute; and the Institute on Integrative Learning and the Departments.

AALHE 2013 Third Annual Assessment Conference

Conference start date: 06-03-2013
Conference end date: 06-05-2013
Location: Lexington, Kentucky.

AALHE 2013 Annual Conference “JUGGLING CONFLICTING PRIORITIES: RETHINKING WHAT WE THOUGHT” Proposals may be submitted by email to conference2013@aalhe.org through February 8, 2013. They will be reviewed as quickly as possible, and proposers will be notified of acceptance, modification requests, or rejections by March 8, 2013. Early Bird Registration through April 13, 2013.

Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching

Conference start date: 09-19-2013
Conference end date: 09-22-2013
Location: Park Place Hotel, Traverse City, MI

"For 33 years, Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching and Learning have provided opportunities for the presentation of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. This interdisciplinary teaching conference targets faculty and administrators. The conference is centered on the theme “Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning”."

5th Annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference-Maryville Talks Teaching and Learning in a Time of Challenge and Change

Conference start date: 09-20-2013
Conference end date: 09-21-2013
Location: Maryville University, St. Louis, MO

"All of us in higher education are now being buffeted by strong winds of change fueled by, among other forces, extraordinary technological developments, diverse student populations, and struggling economies. In one way or another, many students are asking why they should come to our campuses, why they should pay so much for their education, and how secure they can be that they will leave well-prepared for future employment. Faculty members are wondering how to engage learners in deep academic study and serious reflection when so many of them are used to instantly accessing factual information on the Internet. Potential employers are complaining that many job applicants today with bachelors’ degrees are ill-equipped to handle the critical thinking and problem-solving demands of the workplace. College and university administrators feel compelled to develop strategic plans for addressing these issues, but, at the same time, know with certainty that the future is highly uncertain. Given these challenging times, we at Maryville decided to use the occasion of our 5th Annual SoTL Conference to broaden the scope of our program. In addition to our continuing focus on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, we will feature extended opportunities to generate, examine, and discuss from multiple perspectives traditional and innovative responses for supporting thoughtful teaching, active student learning, and meaningful research in the next decade."

The Teaching Professor Technology Conference

Conference start date: 10-04-2013
Conference end date: 10-06-2013
Location: The Westin Peachtreee Plaza, Atlanta

"With the conference theme of Blended, Flipped & Massive, The Teaching Professor Technology Conference will examine the technologies that are changing the way teachers teach and students learn while giving special emphasis to the pedagogically effective ways you can harness these new technologies in your courses and on your campus. The three-day conference will bring together faculty, instructional designers, faculty developers, educational technology leaders, and other higher education professionals interested in learning more about how technology is altering the learning environment. The Teaching Professor Technology Conference will include sessions on: Blended or Flipped Courses Online Learning Technology in Face-to-Face Courses MOOCs Social Media, Mobile Learning and Apps"

Lilly International Conference

Conference start date: 11-21-2013
Conference end date: 11-24-2013
Location: Miami Campus, Oxford, OH.

Hosted by Miami University