10-11:30am, Union South, Northwoods Room
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Most students have serious misconceptions about learning, especially about the amount of effort and focus it should require of them and your role in their learning process. One way to dispel these misconceptions is to teach your students how to become self-regulated learners. Self-regulated learning is a key learning skill that few students know about. Research tells us that instructors ...
Noon-1:15pm, Union South
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Learn how to identify, create and sustain successful, high-demand programs for new student audiences at UW-Madison. Growth of high-demand programs designed for non-traditional audiences allows you to:
Noon-1:15pm, Union South
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The Wisconsin Experience is the learning experience we aspire to provide to undergraduate students during their time at UW-Madison. It is a combination of academic and co-curricular experiences leveraged by our institutional values. As a campus, there is an expectation that we will provide the environment and the opportunities, and that students will do their part to seize them.
During the ...
Noon-1:15pm, Union South
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Join us to learn about UW-Madison’s OER strategic framework and how campus has worked closely with Unizin to develop and host Pressbooks. Pressbooks is a WordPress-based authoring platform designed to help faculty and staff easily develop and publish openly licensed textbooks and other affordable educational materials.
Presenters will showcase exciting features of Pressbooks and a handful of openly licensed textbooks developed ...
Noon-1:15pm, Union South
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Based on positive results from pilot studies and campus feedback, UW-Madison is transitioning to the Canvas learning management system (LMS) over the next two years. The plan is to adopt Canvas as the single, centrally supported LMS on campus, and to discontinue campus support for D2L and Moodle by 2018.
Canvas is being used in over 560 credit-based courses this ...
Noon-1:15pm, Union South
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Are you ready to implement blended or online learning in one or more of your courses? Perhaps you have already started and want to learn more from others’ experiences? Join our panelists for an interactive discussion about why they decided to transition to blended and/or online learning, how long it took them to implement the new methods and techniques, and what ...
Noon-1:15pm, Union South
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The Canvas learning management system (LMS) will be integrated with the student information system over the coming months. Starting this fall, many faculty and instructional staff will be moving their courses to Canvas. Join current and former Canvas pilot participants as they share their experiences using Canvas, highlighting useful features, lessons learned and best practices. Read More
Noon-1:15pm, Union South
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The original articulation of the Wisconsin Experience referred to that indescribable “something” that is unique to UW-Madison. Many on campus have taken it upon themselves to fill in “that something” in a local context and others are confused by what it all means. Join panelists and colleagues to further articulate “that something” in a broad cross-campus context. Read More
Noon-1:15pm, Union South (TITU)
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Are you thinking about delving into blended learning (or diving deeper), but not sure what methods to employ? Join our panelists and other colleagues for an interactive discussion about blended learning and what approaches best promote active student engagement. Read More
Presentation: 3-4:30pm
Reception: 4:30-5:30pm
WID Town Center
The Educational Innovation (EI) Initiative welcomes the campus community to attend a special guest presentation by internationally renowned, digital learning expert and theorist, and executive director of the LINK Research Lab at University of Texas-Arlington, George Siemens.
Dr. Siemens’s presentation will highlight some of the recent changes in higher education concerning government policy, student expectations and growth of for-profits, among ...
