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DAY 1: Wednesday, April 19
- Morning Keynote: Ambassador Hahn Choonghee - Global Citizenship Education and the Public Purpose of Higher Education
- Morning Session
- Afternoon Session 1
- Afternoon Session 2
DAY 2: Thursday, April 20
- Morning Sessions
- Afternoon Session 1
- Afternoon Session 2
- Afternoon Keynote: Matthew Frye Jacobson - Teaching with the Historian's Eye
Symposium Schedule
The purpose of this annual event is to highlight new, interesting, and effective approaches to teaching and learning at Lehigh. We hope to disseminate good ideas, inspire others to try new approaches, and recognize the work of those who have met with success of one kind or another in their teaching.
This year the Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 19th and Thursday, April 20th. Please review the schedule below and register for the sessions you are able to attend.
Pre-registration is closed, but we hope you'll drop by if you're able.
Wednesday, April 19
TIME | LOCATION | TITLE | PRESENTER(S) |
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8:00 am - 9:00am | Williams Global Commons | Continental Breakfast | |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Williams Global Commons |
Global Citizenship Education and the Public Purpose of Higher Education |
Ambassador Hahn Choonghee, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations |
10:15 am - 11:45 am | Williams Global Commons | Afterschool Passport | Anjela Yates, Dakota DiMattio, Tamara Jones |
Be Bethlehem, Be Here: Mapping the Southside | Corina Fitzgerald, Alejandra Silguero, Julia Patterson, Faith Rayches | ||
The Value of After-School Homework Clubs | Carolina Hernandez, Alicia Creazzo, and Paige Warbrick | ||
StepUp Intensive English Program - International Peace Garden |
Kayla Landers and Mary Newbegin |
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Improving Walkability on the Southside through Public Art and by Enhancing the Public Realm |
Karen Beck Pooley | ||
Revitalizing General Chemistry Experiments Through Technology: Making Challenging Concepts Thought Provoking | Denise Beautreau | ||
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Williams Global Commons | Coroporate Social Responsibility and Impact Investing | Jennifer Farrington, Vice President, BD Foundation & Senior Director, Social Investing |
Percy Hughes Social Justice Award | |||
LTS Library Awards | Christy Roysdon and Stacey Kimmel-Smith | ||
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Williams Global Commons |
FEED |
Maddie Smith, Ian McDonald, Grace Lloyd, Isabel Buenga, Casey Ching |
Rooting Our Voices | Miles Davis | ||
Smash the Stigma | Jenna Pastorini, Juan Palacio Moreno, Meg Kelly, Wenlue Zhong, & Mike DiMartino | ||
Transition for Refugees through Education and Empowerment (Mountaintop 2016) | Katie Morris | ||
SERVE Program: Transforming Communities and Student Learning through Meaningful Service |
Gabby Dardis and Joey Recupero, CSO Student Coordinators |
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Parental Engagement in Children's Kindergarten Transition |
Xinwei Zhang, Anu Sachdev and Peggy Kong |
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National Museum of Industrial History Outreach and Collaboration | Amy Hollander | ||
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Williams Global Commons |
Community Fellows Poster Presentation |
Community Fellows |
4:10 pm | Drown 210 | Documentary Film Screening: Rooting Our Voices (A History of Africana Studies) |
Filmmakers: Brenda Martinez, Miles Davis, Connor Burbridge, Donterrius Walker and Tamara Jones |
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Thursday, April 20
TIME | LOCATION | TITLE | PRESENTER(S) |
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Innovative Approaches to Teaching | |||
8:30am-9:00am | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | Continental Breakfast | |
9:00 am - 10:30 am | Leveraging 'YouSeeU' for Student Peer-review in a Project-based Course | Mike Lehman | |
Low-cost Active-Collaborative Student Assessment | Ed Webb | ||
Cooperative, Collaborative Experiential-Based Learning in an Energy Systems Class | Rudy Shankar | ||
Adapting Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL) Model to Increase Student Engagement in Organic Chemistry Recitations | Suzanne Fernandez | ||
ePortfolios in CAS: Promoting Learning and Creating Digital Resumés | Jennifer Swann & Susan Ellis | ||
Using the CITL One Button Studio and Google's G-Suite to Enhance Learning and Simplify Feedback. | Matthew Bilsky | ||
10:40 am - 12:00 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | Reels, Risk, and Revisions: Three Ways to Enhance Examinations | Mike Lehman |
Blending Synchronous and Asynchronous Participation in a Graduate Engineering Course with a Diverse Student Population | Ana Alexandrescu | ||
Creating and Experiencing Fully Immersive Virtual Reality with HTC VIVE | Scott Garrigan | ||
Frameworks for Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning (EML) for Engineers and others | John Ochs | ||
Teamwork Behavior Change though Active Learning | Vince Grassi | ||
Confessions of a Smart Board Junkie: Using Interactive Displays to Elucidate, Engage, and Enhance Lecture Presentations | Ed Webb & Rich Rosenblum | ||
Creative Inquiry and Impactful Learning | |||
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | LUNCH & Fun and Games in Project Management Classes | Kathleen Donohue |
Innovative Approaches to Teaching | |||
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | Engaging and Guiding Students | |
Pedagogical Variety in Flexible Classrooms: Examples from Various Courses and Disciplines |
Greg Reihman |
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Encouraging Critical Reading through a Shared Digital Text with Perusall |
Rick Vinci, w/ Phil Hewitt, Steve Sakasitz |
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Life after Lehigh: Guiding Undergraduate Students for Graduate Programs |
Hyun-Tae Jung |
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Raising the bar on impact expectations: Designing and executing creative inquiry curricula. | Todd Watkins, Khanjan Mehta, Mark Orrs and Vince Munley | ||
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) | Learning Through Visualization & Digital Media | |
Student as Curator: Digital History for First-Year Students |
Alison Kanosky & Cory Fischer-Hoffman |
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Teaching the Storytelling Power of Numbers: The Development and Assessment of Modules on Data Journalism and Data Visualization |
Haiyan Jia |
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Women of Bethlehem Steel: A Digital Archive Chronicling Women’s Experiences |
Julia Maserjian & Rob Wiedman |
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Party Responsibly: Elevating Political Discourse |
Amalia Cote, Summer Sullivan, Soraya Todd, Mike Horgan, Maggie Norsworthy |
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The BioSFilm Festival: A Collaborative Multimedia Learning Assignment |
Krystle J. McLaughlin |
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4:10 pm - 5:30 pm | EWFM Library (5th-floor South) |
Teaching with the "Historian's Eye" (Using A Public Humanities Photo/Web Project in the Classroom) |
Matthew Frye Jacobson (Professor of American Studies, History & |
Call for Proposals
The 2017 Symposium on Teaching and Learning at Lehigh will be held on Wednesday, April 19th and Thursday, April 20th. Please mark your calendars and attend if you are able.
The purpose of this annual event is to highlight new, interesting, and effective approaches to teaching and learning at Lehigh. We hope to disseminate good ideas, inspire others to try new approaches, and recognize the work of those who have met with success of one kind or another in their teaching.
All are welcome to submit a proposal to give a talk at the Symposium. This year, we especially encourage proposals that fall under the following themes:
- Active Learning
- Community-engaged Learning and Research
- Course-related Digital Humanities Projects
- Creative Inquiry
- Entrepreneurial Minded Learning
- Hybrid / Blended / Flipped Courses
- Inclusive Teaching
- Innovative Uses of Classroom Spaces
- Peer Learning / Collaborative Learning
- Project- or Problem-Based Learning
Please submit your proposal by March 20th, 2017.
Sincerely,
The 2017 Symposium on Teaching and Learning at Lehigh Planning Committee:
- Greg Reihman, Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Director of the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
- Ed Whitley, Director of the Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative (MDHI)
- Sarah Stanlick, Director of the Center for Community Engagement (CCE)
- John Ochs, co-PI of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) Grant
- Khanjan Mehta, Vice Provost for Creative Inquiry & Director of the Mountaintop Initiative
- Ilena Key, Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
Feedback from participants in the 2016 Symposium
98% of Symposium attendees responded that the Symposium was successful at meeting its goals - "to highlight new, interesting, and effective approaches to teaching and learning at Lehigh; to disseminate good ideas; to inspire others to try new approaches; and to recognize the work of those who have met with success of one kind or another in their teaching" [72%: very successful; 26% somewhat successful]
When asked, specifically, what made the Symposium so successful, attendees responded:
- "The opportunity to meet so many great members of the community, and hear about successes in innovative teaching across the institution."
- "It was neat to see a forum like this. Helps to bring out the best of Lehigh."
- "Hearing from faculty directly about their experiences."
- "I was awakened to the help available from CITL and the radical changes in the libraries that are in progress. "
- "It was very useful to see instructors from a range of departments and programs share their curricula and styles of teaching with us and each other. I feel that a symposium comprised of a diverse group of presenters and attendees provides for a fuller view of classroom instruction."
- "Really liked the morning session. It's always an interesting deep dive on interesting projects and ideas. The lightning round is always interesting too. Lots of useful tools and ways of thinking about technology."
- "The variety of presentations made by engaging faculty.... and a good wide range applications of technology and innovation. Good location for the conference."
- "Loved the varied and exciting approaches to familiar problems. Using technology is not usually part of my teaching, but I will try some of the approaches"
- "The open, collaborative, environment fostered by the Symposium was second-to-none."
- "I loved hearing about the innovative projects faculty were doing and how they all recognized the support they received from staff!"
- "So many different ideas presented. Great to see diversity in teaching."
- "I enjoyed the sessions 1 and 3 the most. I heard several ideas for projects that I could imagine using in my classroom. "
- "I always enjoy getting a peek into other faculty's classrooms (so to speak). I picked up a few new tools ..., so it will definitely enrich my own teaching. The short format of the lightning round was nice, maximizing what I could see in the time I spent."
- "Very good talks, and they fit the session title about engagement, which is an important and timely theme."
- "Great ideas about teaching approaches and ways to use digital tools. I really appreciated the way presenters talked about integrated the digital tools into their overall learning designs."
- "New ideas. Great and enthusiastic speakers."
- "The quality of the teaching work being done at Lehigh is always so impressive and energizing. The organization of the symposium was quite professional. I'm consistently torn between a desire to hear more presenters and a desire for less presenters and some significant time for questions and discussion. I think we could have benefited from some meaningful time for discussion at various points."
- "Well kept time limits, focused audience"
- "Loads of presenters -- lots of diversity in reports"
- "It was great to hear what others are doing and getting inspired by their innovative work."
- "The diverse background of people."
- "Successful in hearing from so many different people around Lehigh who are trying new things in the classroom and beyond"
- "The opportunity to hear about so many innovations at Lehigh in a short time."
- "It was great to hear from people you wouldn't normally hear from within your own department"
- "Input from a variety of instructors with different teaching objectives and challenges."
- "I enjoyed hearing about the new ways instructors are engaging students in a more experiential learning environment."
- "Great attendance! I loved the upstairs room layout with both structured seatings as well as a significant amount of soft-seating."