{"id":337,"date":"2010-03-29t09:14:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-29t09:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/?p=337"},"modified":"2010-07-29t18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29t18:30:35","slug":"university-of-louisville-clickers-conference-june-4-talks-by-vus-derek-bruff-corbette-doyle-john-seibert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2010\/03\/university-of-louisville-clickers-conference-june-4-talks-by-vus-derek-bruff-corbette-doyle-john-seibert\/","title":{"rendered":"university of louisville clickers conference june 4 \u2013 talks by vu\u2019s derek bruff, corbette doyle, john seibert"},"content":{"rendered":"
the 2nd university of louisville clickers conference<\/a> will be held in louisville, kentucky, june 4th this summer.\u00a0 “clickers” are handheld devices that allow students to respond synchronously to multiple-choice questions posed by their instructors.\u00a0 distributions of responses are displayed on-screen to inform subsequent teaching choices and motivate discussion among students.\u00a0 cft assistant director derek bruff, author of teaching with classroom response systems: creating active learning environments<\/em><\/a> (jossey-bass, 2009), is giving the keynote talk at the conference.<\/p>\n two vanderbilt faculty members are also giving presentations at the conference, corbette doyle (leadership, policy, & organizations) and john seibert (otolarynglogy).\u00a0 details on their sessions are below.<\/p>\n the conference is in louisville, just a few hours away by car.\u00a0 if you’re interested in attending, please let us know!<\/p>\n themes:<\/strong> combining online assessment and clickers for \u201cjust-in-time\u201d learning, clickers and peer instruction, using clickers to identify and teach around misconceptions<\/p>\n presenter:<\/strong> ms. corbette doyle, mba<\/a>, lecturer, peabody college at vanderbilt university<\/p>\n discover the opportunity that clickers offer to address key learning concerns in a no-lecture, constructivist environment such as that used in a problem-based learning (pbl) classroom.\u00a0 in particular, this session will focus on the opportunity clickers offer for fundamental learning assessments, and ways to determine when contingent teaching (or spot lectures) are needed to ensure individual and collective progress.\u00a0 the session will mirror a pbl class, with a primary focus on audience participation and minimal lecturing from the session leader.<\/strong><\/p>\n themes: <\/strong>health sciences, clickers and peer instruction, clickers and assessment\n
problem-based learning: using clickers to ensure progress in a learn-by-doing course<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
integrating audience response systems into otolaryngology residency training<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nrecommended for new users.<\/p>\n