{"id":18996,"date":"2014-05-12t09:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-12t14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=18996"},"modified":"2014-05-12t09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12t14:59:38","slug":"from-the-director-celebration-of-learning-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2014\/05\/from-the-director-celebration-of-learning-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"from the director: celebration of learning in review"},"content":{"rendered":"
by derek bruff, cft director<\/em><\/p>\n two weeks ago, the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 held a celebration of learning, the final event in our \u201cstudents as producers<\/a>\u201d theme year.\u00a0 through a series of workshops, panels, teaching visits, 2022年世界杯预选赛赛程表, and blog posts this year, we have explored ways to help students become not just consumers<\/em> of information but also producers<\/em> of knowledge, engaged in meaningful, generative work in the courses they take.<\/p>\n for our end-of-year event, we wanted to show the campus what \u201cstudents as producers\u201d look like, and so the celebration of learning featured an exhibition of 25 student projects from all four undergraduate schools<\/strong>.\u00a0 here\u2019s just a sample of the student work on display:<\/p>\n the energy level in alumni hall was very high as the students presented their projects, and i heard several of the students say how much they appreciated the chance to share their work beyond their individual classes.\u00a0 i want to thank the students involved in the event for participating and thank their instructors and mentors for helping them produce such interesting projects.<\/p>\n the celebration of learning also featured a keynote by randy bass<\/strong>, vice provost for education and professor of english at georgetown university.\u00a0 randy challenged us to take a design approach to envisioning the university of the year 2030.\u00a0 what kind of education will be needed at that moment of history?\u00a0 he quoted frank levy and richard murnane, saying that the graduates of 2030 will need to be ready to work with new information and to solve unstructured problems\u2014the kinds of things that computers won\u2019t be able to do.\u00a0 to prepare students for this, randy argued that we need to leverage what we know about high-impact educational practices<\/a> along with educational technology (open content, adaptive tutoring systems, etc.) to create a new curriculum, one that integrates the formal undergraduate curriculum as we know it with the experiential co-curriculum, where many high-impact practices already exist.<\/p>\n if this sounds at all interesting, take some time to watch the entire keynote by randy bass<\/a>.\u00a0 it\u2019s full of great ideas and important questions.<\/p>\n the celebration of learning also served to celebrate the graduate students, post-docs, and faculty who completed cft programs this year.\u00a0 our inaugural cohort of blended and online learning design (bold) fellows<\/a> presented the online learning modules they designed, implemented, and tested this year, and our sotl scholars<\/a> shared their work in the scholarship of teaching and learning (sotl).\u00a0 we also recognized graduates of our certificate in college teaching<\/a> program and this year\u2019s junior faculty teaching fellows<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n