10th Annual Spring Teaching Forum and Innovation Fair
Academic overload: teaching in an age of information explosion
LEAP DAY - Friday, February 29, 2008, 10:30-2:30 in HGS
In a time when knowledge is increasing exponentially, what does it mean for a student to study art history, or political science or biology? What is known in the natural and physical sciences is increasing rapidly, reinforcing a trend toward specialization as comprehensive study of a field becomes impossible. In the social sciences and humanities, open access to sources once limited to specialists blurs the traditional roles of students and expert scholars. Meanwhile, proliferation of media saturates our lives and our studies with unfiltered images, opinions, music, personal messages, and self-publishing opportunities. In response to the changing face of disciplines, teachers and students are adapting and even transforming curricula, instruction techniques, and the classroom experience. In our tenth annual Spring Forum and Innovation Fair, we will explore how this information explosion has changed what it means to teach and learn in the college environment. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of our program, there will be an opportunity to win an ipod! Register online.

Schedule
10:15 Registration and coffee, HGS 211

10:30 Welcome by Dean Jon Butler

10:30 The Possibilities and Perils of Teaching in the Information Age
Larry Rizzolo, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Experimental Surgery
Bill Rando, Director of the Graduate Teaching Center
Barbara Rockenbach, Director of Undergraduate and Library Research Education
Ed Kairiss, Director of the Instructional Technology Group of AM

11:30 Innovation Fair and Luncheon, HGS 119
List of Participants below

12:45 Reports from the Yale Classroom, HGS 211
Tom Pollard, Sterling Professor of MCDB, Professor of Cell Biology and MB
Sandy Isenstadt, Assistant Professor of History of Art
Taylor Spence, Graduate Student in US History
Lori Hilt, Graduate Student in Psychology

2:15 Closing Remarks

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Group/Subjects

Academic Media and Technology -- Instructional Technology Group
waiting to hear on topic

Academic Media and Technology -- Instructional Solutions Group
Classes*v2 and Special Instructional Projects

Academic Media and Technology
Graphics & Illustration

Media Services
Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, and Digital Imaging

Resource Office on Disabilities
Resource Office on Disabilities

Bass Collaborative Learning Center
Bass Collaborative Learning Center Programs

Frank Robinson
Using Wireless Polling in Teaching (Clickers!)

Center for Language Study
Support for Language Teaching Fellows

Graduate Teaching Center
GTC: Services and Opportunities

Graduate Teaching Center
Feedback Methods Using Survey Monkey

Surgery Gross Anatomy
Innovative Teaching of Anatomy

Ten Years of Spring Teaching Forum and Innovation Fair

1999 - Graduate Education and the Changing Marketplace for Academics
2000 - Teaching in the Life of a Scholar
2001 - Teaching the Future
2002 - Reaching Students: The Art of Great Teaching
2003 - Engaging Complexity
2004 - Lecture, Section, and Learning
2005 - Teaching and Research: Two Faces, One Mind
2006 - Teaching Students/Training Scholars: An In-depth Look at the Graduate Seminar
2007 - Why Do We Grade?
2008 - Academic Overload: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Information Explosion