Contact
Address
Normal Hall 301
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
Phone
812-237-2676
Fax
812-237-8446
Email
cirt@indstate.edu
Hours
Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Spring 2008 Speaker Series
The Joy and Responsibility of Teaching Well
L. Dee Fink, Ph.D.
Location:
Thursday, January 24, 2008
1:00-2:30 PM
(Library, South Events Area)
About:
Dee Fink received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in
1976 for studies on the teaching of college-level geography. He joined
the faculty at the University of Oklahoma with a joint appointment
in geography and higher education. In 1979 he established the
Instructional Development Program at Oklahoma and served as
director of this program until his retirement from there in 2005. He
currently works as a consultant on higher education.
He has also been an active member of the Professional
Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education,
the primary national and international organization for faculty and
instructional development, for the past 20 years. He was a member
of the POD executive committee (1999 & 2002), has co-directed a
one-day workshop for new faculty developers at the annual POD
conference for the past ten years, and has been a regular session
leader at POD’s Summer Institute for new faculty developers. He also
served as president of the POD Network from 2003-2006.
He has published a number of books and articles on four general
subjects: college teaching, evaluating college teaching, new faculty
members, and instructional development programs. His two most
recent publications are:
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. Jossey-Bass, 2003.
- Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching, co-edited with Larry Michaelsen and Arletta Knight. Stylus Publishers: 2004.
New Technologies and New Learning: Who Will Be FIT
Anne H. Moore, Ph.D.
Location:
Friday, February 29, 2008
1:00 - 2:30 PM
(Library, South Events Area)
About:
Anne H. Moore is associate vice president for learning technologies
and director of information technology initiatives at Virginia Tech. She
coordinates such award winning programs as the Faculty Development
Institute (a four-year cycling development program for university faculty in
integrating technology in teaching); the Graduate Education Development
Institute (a credit-bearing course for graduate students on contemporary
approaches to pedagogy and technology); and the Center for Innovation
in Learning (a granting agency for strategic instructional projects and
annual awards for technology-assisted learning activities). In addition to
teaching and advising graduate students in urban affairs and planning,
she assists underserved rural and urban communities with technology
integration initiatives.
Moore is founding chair of the Electronic Campus of Virginia, a member
of the commonwealth’s Learning Technologies Advisory Committee and
Open Education Resources Committee, and has served as staff director
for two commissioned reports on the future of Virginia higher education.
She sits on national advisory boards for such organizations as the
Research Channel, the Redesign Alliance, WCET, and Adobe; holds three
degrees from William and Mary; and has authored numerous articles,
book chapters and policy papers.
On-line Learning/Teaching Environment: Strategies, Expectations, and Quality
Lawrence C. Ragan, Ph.D.
Location:
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
1:00 - 2:30 PM
(Library, South Events Area)
About:
Lawrence C. Ragan is the Director of Instructional Design and
Development for Penn State’s World Campus. Dr. Ragan is charged
with directing the design and development of learning spaces for
students external to a Penn State campus. He is responsible for
the integration of a wide range of technologies into the instructional
process for the creation of World Campus coursework. Dr. Ragan has
designed and delivered several on-line courses for over seven years
including OL 2000, a faculty development on-line course.
Dr. Ragan also coordinates the design and delivery of faculty
development seminars and training programs for the World Campus.
Dr. Ragan has presented internationally on the topics of instructional
design, multimedia development, faculty development issues and
instructional design for distance education.
Turning Teaching into Scholarship
Alease S. Bruce, Ph.D.
Location:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
1:00 - 2:30 PM
(Library, South Events Area)
About:
Alease S. Bruce is a professor in the Department of Clinical Laboratory
and Nutritional Sciences in the School of Health and Environment. As a
Ph.D. in physiology /immunology, she teaches anatomy and physiology
and immunology at the undergraduate level and Pathophysiology at the
graduate level. Dr. Bruce has numerous publications and books and
has published in the Journal of College Science Teaching, The Science
Teacher, Science and Children and The Educator. Her recent publications
focus on educational methods that promote deep learning. She recently
co-chaired the Carnegie Task Force, promoting and investigating the
scholarship of teaching and learning on the University Massachusetts-
Lowell campus.