A series of workshops looking at innovative learning and teaching ideas with our guests from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Creative Approaches to Teaching & Learning with UIUC: Session A

Facilitator: Cheelan Bo-Linn (UIUC), Robert Baird (UIUC), Ian Brown (EDC), Darren Harbutt (EDC), Indie Chung (EDC)

Date: 09 June 2017

Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Venue: TU411

This workshop focuses on two key areas:

• Students to Think Critically and to Problem-Solve Creatively
• Writing 2.0: Why Your Students Should be Writing, Drafting, Revising, and Reflecting Every Week (and you don’t have to grade everything!)

Creative Approaches to Teaching & Learning with UIUC: Session B

Facilitator: Cheelan Bo-Linn (UIUC), Robert Baird (UIUC), Ian Brown (EDC), Darren Harbutt (EDC), Indie Chung (EDC)

Date: 13 June 2017

Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Venue: TU411

This workshop focuses on: 
Active Teaching to Active Learning: Strategies for Deep Learning and Retention

Students must be cognitively, physically, and affectively engaged for deeper learning and retention to occur. Yet there are many distractions and the attention span of our students can be relatively short.  How do we manage the amount of content that we should teach while providing opportunities for our students to be engaged in active learning? 

We’ll begin identifying activities where students are involved in doing, seeing, writing, feeling, and talking. Also, we’ll learn about Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS), which actively engage students while providing valuable feedback about their learning. 

Creative Approaches to Teaching & Learning with UIUC: Session C

Facilitator: Cheelan Bo-Linn (UIUC), Robert Baird (UIUC), Ian Brown (EDC), Darren Harbutt (EDC), Indie Chung (EDC)

Date: 13 June 2017

Time: 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Venue: TU411

This workshop is about different aspects of course design to help engage your students and looks at the following in some depth:

•  A Learner-Centered Course Design to Enhance Significant Learning
• The Power of Presentations: Enhancing your Slides for Teaching and Engagement
• Free and Easy Ways Anyone Can Find, Edit, and Create Images for Teaching and Learning

Creative Approaches to Teaching & Learning with UIUC: Session D

Facilitator: Robert Baird (UIUC), Ian Brown (EDC)

Date: 14 June 2017

Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Venue: Seminar Room 3/F Pao Yue-kong Library

This session is about:

Fundamentals of Composition in Cinema, Photography & the Visual Arts (Useful for Educators Across the Disciplines)

There are 10 or so fundamental formal compositional elements that span all the visual arts, from painting to VR.  Educators in any discipline can benefit from understanding these formal features, both to be a better viewer and critic of educational media, as well as to be a better creator of media, whether slides, posters, or any document created for teaching, research, and outreach.