To view a full description of the two-day learning institute and to register, please turn to the institute’s webpage https://sites.middlebury.edu/ctlrmay2015/

This two-day learning institute builds upon the growing body of research on how people learn and highlights how this understanding informs pedagogy, student engagement, and innovative classroom practice. Victor Benassi and Catherine Overson of the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will share their expertise and experiences with us as will members of the Middlebury faculty.

It is our hope that those who will register for the conference will participate in the full program so that a strong sense of shared involvement will inform the institute.

The first twenty persons who register will receive copies of either Susan A. Ambrose et al.’s How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching or Peter Brown et al.’s Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.

Lecture by:
Amy Collier, Ph.D.
Senior Director for Inspiration and Outreach
Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
Stanford University

Tuesday, March 31
12:30
Light lunch will be served

Event link

Much of the discourse on emerging technologies centers on tidy, efficient, and measurable uses of those technologies for student learning or it dwells on their invasive, disruptive, or deterministic potential. This talk will take a different approach to emerging technologies for learning—viewing them as providing opportunities for beautiful complexity, curiosity and play, and inclusion. We will explore the notion of not-yetness as a fruitful conceptual space for emerging technologies and discuss how we might embrace not-yetness in our work. Moving away from utopian and dystopian narratives that accompany technology, we will instead examine not-yetness as a space for exploring what is possible and what is exciting about emerging technologies for learning.

Dr. Collier oversees outreach to faculty, departments, schools, and external collaborators to help collect and share good ideas for digital learning. She helps to launch and manage new learning-focused projects to ensure that those projects have productive teams and resources to succeed. Prior to this role at Stanford, Amy Collier was the director of digital learning initiatives in the Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning (VPOL), where she led the online and blended course design and teaching initiatives and conducted research to inform effective practices across the University.