Boeing Pilot Project Seminar Archive

On Monday April 14th, from 5 to 7 pm, Boeing Awardes (Attendance List) met to share their perspectives and plans for their Boeing Pilot Projects. These awards were designed to support the curricular transformation associated with a learning paradigm, (Barr & Tagg, 1996) based on the use of advanced educational technologies.

Several presentations were made and the following exhibits were shared:

Veterinary Medicine 499
Cheryl Dhein, Spring 1997
Veterinary Medicine 464 Special Problems
Cheryl Dhein, Spring 1997
Interdisiplinary Participant Investigation Project, SALC
Jean Heinscheid Spring 1997
Psychology 105
Paul Whitney, Spring 1997
French 306
Joan Greiner-Winther, Spring 1997
Math 220
Alan Genz, Spring 1997
PharS 441 - PBT I
Janice Okita, Spring 1997

As more seminars, worksessions, meetings and public forums are held, the exhibits of issues will be posted or linked here. This site should serve as a sort of archive.

Although not a part of VWSU or the Boeing Project, the Center for Teaching and Learning is hosting two "Learning Forums" of interest.

 

CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING FORUMS

Thursday, April 24: "Multimedia Meets Reality." CUB 112-113, 12-1 p.m. Prof. Virginia Lohr, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Prof. Cecelia Buchanan, EE/CS, and Dr. Gary Brown, Center for Teaching and Learning. An open discussion on making, using, and assessing CD-ROMs in the classroom.
Tuesday, April 29: "Improving Teaching by Using Written Comments on Student Evaluations" Fine Arts Auditorium, 12:10-1 p.m. Prof. Mary Wack, Center for Teaching and Learning. Course evaluation time is upon us again, and it's not too soon to begin thinking about ways student evaluations can be used to improve courses the next time they're offered. Open-ended questions offer the most useful feedback for improvement, but if the class is larger than 20 or 25 students, interpreting the data accurately can be a problem. This forum presents the "grid method" for getting the most out of the comments students write on open-ended course evaluation questions.

 

 

References

Barr, R. & Tagg, J. (1995). From teaching to learning: A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change, November/December, 13-25.

Attendees