Active Learning for Busy Skeptics

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Date/Time:Friday, 15 Apr 2022 from 8:00 am to 11:00 am
Location:4202 Student Innovation Center
Cost:Free
URL:http://www.celt.iastate.edu/events-registration
Contact:
Phone:515-294-5357
Channel:Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Categories:Training, development
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Active learning has consistently been shown to be more effective than traditional instruction for promoting learning, motivation and student retention. Despite this overwhelming research support, instructors have a number of significant concerns about adopting active learning techniques in their own classes. Common concerns include worries about preparation time, content coverage and student resistance to new teaching methods.

Join Dr. Michael Prince as he leads participants through a hands-on session designed to introduce quick and simple active learning techniques that are effective, require little preparation or class time, and which generate little or no student resistance.
Participants will leave the workshop equipped to adopt inquiry-based teaching methods to promote students' understanding of critical concepts and share research-based strategies for reducing student resistance.

About the Presenter
Dr. Michael Prince (Professor, Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University) is the author of over 100 education-related papers for engineering faculty, with a particular focus on active and inductive teaching strategies. His current research examines the use of inquiry-based activities to repair persistent student misconceptions in thermodynamics and heat transfer, as well as how to increase the diffusion of research-based instructional practices in both academic and corporate settings.

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Coordinated by the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the College of Engineering (MSE) at Iowa State University.