Christal Brown and other members of the Movement Matters Steering Committee, Wednesday, April 30

Members of the Movement Matters steering committee discussed the process of creating interdisciplinary research models that foster embodied scholarship. This discussion will begin by looking into current research models that blend dance and science and identify other collaborative models that could be supported thorough our current curriculum. The Movement Matters steering committee comprises faculty from Dance, Education Studies, Biology, and Sociology and Anthropology. Movement Matters is a three year initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation to support the work of an interdisciplinary movement artist working across the disciplines of the college.

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Technology’s Horizon: Predicting the impact of technology on higher education

Joe Antonioli, LIS, April 15

New technologies are continuously introduced to the education environment, having an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry. The Horizon Report, released jointly by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative, looks at trends, challenges and emerging technologies that are likely to have an impact on learning, teaching and creative inquiry in education in the next one to five years.

Download the Horizon Report

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Members of the Ad Hoc Assessment Committee: Susan Baldridge, Chair; Amy Morsman; Amy Yuen; Bill Peterson; Michael Newbury; Damascus Kafumbe; Hang Du. Friday, April 25

The Ad Hoc Assessment Committee described the initial work done to create a framework for assessing students’ progress toward the faculty-endorsed College-wide learning goals. They shared the lessons learned during their evaluation of oral presentation skills at the Spring Symposium.

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The Pedagogy of the Poster: Using large-format print to encourage student engagement

Pat Zupan, Jonathan Miller-Lane, Caitlyn Myers, and Noah Graham,
March 17

Poster sessions are common means of sharing research and project information at academic conferences and our own Spring Student Symposium, but how are they used as a teaching tool? Join us for a lunchtime discussion with faculty from different disciplines– Pat Zupan (Italian), Jonathan Miller-Lane (Education Studies), Caitlyn Myers (Economics), and Noah Graham (Physics)– about their experiences using poster presentations in a course. What works well? What challenges arise? How does this assignment enhance student learning?

Note different location for this roundtable.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to dbernier@middlebury.edu by noon Friday, March 14.

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