2021 Online Teaching Institute

The 2021 Online Teaching Institute will take place August 10–12 and will consist of teaching workshops and presentations intended to help you develop your teaching whether you are new to teaching or a more seasoned instructor. The topic for the first two days of the Institute will be “Assessing the learning—reflecting on teaching”; the last day’s topic will be “Blended Learning—what will your blend be?” The year’s keynotes will feature distinguished scholars Stephen D. Brookfield and Robert A. Duke (University of Texas).

• Keynote Presenter Stephen D. Brookfield
• Keynote Presenter Robert A. Duke
• Schedule + Recorded Presentations

Stephen D. Brookfield

Assessing Our Impact on Students' Learning: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Presentation (10:00 - 11:00 am)
Q&A (11:15 - 11:45 am)

How do we know what and how students are learning? And how do we assess the impact of our teaching practices on learners? Stephen Brookfield will discuss the importance of assessing the accuracy and validity of the assumptions that guide our teaching and demonstrate how social media backchannels can help us become critically reflective teachers. Learn more

Robert A. Duke

Why Students Don't Learn What We Think We Teach

Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Presentation (10:00 - 11:00 am)
Q&A (11:15 - 11:45 am)

In 1959, Jerome Bruner correctly observed that "The school boy learning physics is a physicist, and it is easier for him to learn physics by behaving like a physicist than doing anything else" (1960, p. 72). Since that time, research in psychology and neuroscience has deepened our understanding of the fundamental principles of human learning. Yet much of what we do in public and private education at all levels of instruction seems to effectively ignore these principles. What’s up with that? We will discuss the reasons why formal education often fails to make substantive and lasting changes in how learners think and behave, and we'll consider how to design learning experiences that lead to advantageous changes in cognition, affect, and behavior, all of which are components of expertise in every discipline. Learn more