Agenda
Friday February 11, 2011
2:30 PM Registration
3:00 PM Introduction: John Hutchinson, Dean of Undergraduates, Professor of Chemistry, Rice University
3:20 PM Wendy Newstetter, Director of Learning Science Research, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:00 PM Robert Beichner, STEM Education Initiative and Physics Department, North Carolina State University
4:30 PM Robert Beichner: "Active use of Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP)"
5:30 PM Reception
Saturday February 12, 2011
7:30 AM Registration
8:00 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM Overview: Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor & Professor of Physics, Senior Fellow, Baker Institute, Rice University
9:00 AM Mark Chang, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
9:30 AM Donald P French, Professor, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University
10:00 AM Valerie K. Otero, Associate Professor of Science Education
"Transforming Classrooms So They Align With How Students Learn"
10:30 AM Breakout sessions
A) Mark L. Chang: "Motivating Innovation Through the Synthesis of Design, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship"
B) Donald French: "Effective Direction of Inquiry-based Labs"
C) Valerie Otero: "Nuts n' Bolts of Transforming Your Course to Increase Student Engagement Using Undergraduate Learning Assistants"
D) Wendy Newstetter: "Problem-driven Learning: A Socio-cognitive Approach to Classroom Design"
11:30 AM Lunch & poster viewing session, Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK)
1:00 PM Angelica Stacy, Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
1:30 PM Steven Pollock, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
2:00 PM Guershon Harel, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
2:30 PM Coffee break
2:45 PM Breakout sessions
E)
Angelica Stacy: "Chemistry Assessments That Support Change and Shift Practice"
F) Steven Pollock: "Transforming Upper Level Physics Classes"
G) Guershon Harel: " A Research-Based Framework for Teaching Mathematics Effectively"
3:45 PM Refreshments - Rice faculty discussion
Speakers
Robert Beichner, STEM Education Initiative and Physics Department,
North Carolina State University
Mark L. Chang, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Olin College of Engineering
Donald P. French, Professor, Science Education, Behavioral Ecology, Fish, Invertebrates, Oklahoma State University
Guershon Harel, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California,
San Diego
Wendy Newstetter, Director of Learning Science Research, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valerie K. Otero, Associate Professor of Science Education, University of Colorado, Boulder
Steven Pollock, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Angelica Stacy, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
