UW Green Bay Faculty Development Conference: Problem Focused Learning

Date: January 21, 2010

Location: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Description: click on conference title to get details

The 3rd annual SoTL Commons Conference

Date: March 10-12, 2010

Location: Statesboro, Georgia

Description: The purpose of the conference is to be a real and virtual “commons” for college and university teachers, scholars, administrators, faculty developers, and others interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning as a focused, but expansive, evidence-based path for the improvement of teaching effectiveness and student learning outcomes.

Join your colleagues at the 22nd annual Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching - West!

Dates: March 12 - 13, 2010

Location: Kellogg Center, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - (Southern) California

Description: 2010 Theme: Evidence-Based Teaching & Learning.
Lilly Conferences are retreats that combine Scholarship of Teaching and Learning sessions and major addresses with lots of opportunities for informal discussion about excellence in college and university teaching and learning. Internationally-known scholars join new and experienced faculty members and administrators from all over the world to discuss topics such as incorporating technology into teaching, encouraging critical thinking, using teaching and student portfolios, implementing group learning, and evaluating teaching. The welcoming "Lilly Spirit" and the high level of scholarly attention to teaching and learning enable everyone to contribute to the forum. You are invited to join as a presenter or an involved participant.

Plenary: Conversation with Stephen Brookfield
Keynote: Getting Credit for What You Do: Teaching an Evidence-Based Course - Laurie Richlin

Early Registration (big savings) Due: October 15th
Proposals Due: October 2nd 2009
Proposals and Registration Information at http://www.iats.com

LGBTQ Best Practices Workshops

Date: April 9, 2010

Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Description: Professor Lisa Kornetsky, from UW Parkside would like to invite UW System faculty and academic staff to join her in a one-day-long workshop to expand our understanding of strategies to infuse our curriculum with materials addressing the lives of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and queer identified people. “Embedding Inclusive Excellence into the Curriculum: Sharing LGBTQ Best Practices,” will occur on Friday, April 9, 2010, at UW Oshkosh. The workshop will run from 10am – 4pm, with a continental breakfast beginning at 9:30am.

UW System 2010 President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning (more information coming soon)

Date: April 29 - May 1, 2010

Location: Madison Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin

Description: In addition to kenote addresses by UW System President Kevin Reilly and others, the Summit will feature plenary and concurrent sessions on: curricular transformation and the scholarship of teaching and learning across the disciplines in the Arts, Humanities, Global and International Education, Interdisciplinary Studies, Professional Studies, Social Sciences, and STEM areas. Designed to advance Inclusive Excellence, the UW system's planning process for greater diversity, equity and inclusion, the Summit will showcase presentations focused on: Inclusive Pedagogies in disability studies, race and ethnic studies, women, gender and sexuality studies, and socioeconomic status across the curriculum; Emerging and Effective Technologies in the classroom; and High Impact Practices, those educationally effective practices that include collaborative assignments and projects, writing-intensive courses, first-year seminars, undergraduate student-faculty research, learning communities, international studies, community-based and service learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects.

3rd Biennial Threshold Concepts Symposium

Date: July 1-2, 2010

Location: Sydney, Australia

Theme: Exploring Transformative Dimensions of Threshold Concepts

Description: The symposium theme aims to encourage the exploration of thresholds and transformations.