Instructional Innovation Conference 2009

The Conference showcased classroom and curricular innovations by BU faculty throughout the University. Innovations will be presented – and when possible, demonstrated – at the Conference, which is open to all full-time and part-time instructors at BU as well as doctoral students.

Below are presentations from the conference.

Morning Sessions:

Early Morning:

Make it Fun:  Use of Audience Response to Create an Interactive Course Review

Practice Based Teaching Innovations

The Team Learning Assistant

Video of Early Morning Sesssions

Mid-Morning:

Aristotle’s Tripod: Two Exercises for the First Class

Creation of Online Video Modules Communicating an Engaging Public Health Message

Simulating Service Integration in Public Health: A Classroom Role-Play

The Paperless Classroom: A Demonstration of Wiki-based Learning

Use of social Network Software to Analyze Student's Own Social Networks

Video of Mid-Morning Morning Sessions

Afternoon Sessions:

Early Afternoon:

Videos of Early Afternoon Sessions

Mid-Afternoon:

Using a Wiki for Sharing and Reflection

Mobile PDA Communication of Financial Analysis: Lessons for Learning

Teaching Histology with Interactive Technology: Virtual Microscopy and Audience Response System

Using Stock-Trak ® for investment analysis and portfolio management: An Academic tool for real life risk assessment

Videos of Mid-Afternoon Sessions

May 13, 2009, 8:45am-5pm, Metcalf Trustee Ballroom, One Silber Way, 9th floor

Online Learning at BU:  Innovations, Outcomes and Insights

The Provost’s Faculty Advisory Board for Distance Education, the Office of Distance Education and the Center for Excellence in Teaching welcome you to participate in an interactive conference focused on distance learning.

The conference will provide an opportunity for faculty to learn about BU’s eight year history of online program offerings and distance learning technologies and to interact with experienced faculty about their online teaching experiences and program outcomes. Most importantly, the conference will highlight the insights faculty who develop and teach in these programs have gained about teaching effectiveness, not only in online programs, but in the classroom as well.

List of speakers include: Provost David Campbell, Dean Jay Halfond, Patrick Jones, Dominic Screnci, Steve Quigley, John Wallace, Roger Warburton, Dan Leclair, June Grasso, Sally Sommers-Smith, Bob Schudy, Eric Friedman, Kip Becker, David Whittier, Samuel Hammer, Janelle Heineke, Nancy Coleman, and Karen Jacobs.

Register by May 1, 2009 at http://www.bu.edu/fabde/signup/

Admission is free

Open to Boston University Students, Staff, and Faculty

Contact: The Provost’s Faculty Advisory Board for Distance Education Karen Jacobs kjacobs@bu.edu 617-353-7516

Online teaching newsletter, The Teaching Professor

If you are logging in from a campus computer, you can access The Teaching Professor without a password by going to http://www.magnapubs.com/issues/magnapubs_tp/

You will be able to access the current issue as well as past issues (to 1999).

If you prefer to view The Teaching Professor from a non-campus computer, e-mail CET at cet@bu.edu for a log-in name and password.

May 13, 2009