Monday January 5, 2015, 11:00 – 12:00
Presenters: Bill Koulopoulos and Shel Sax
The academy faces many challenges: financial, demographic and pedagogical. The liberal arts landscape is changing. This session will be a discussion of how these pressures are shaping teaching and learning and how the liberal arts in general and Middlebury, in particular, can best build on their strengths as they move forward.
Session Materials
Presentation
Liberal Arts in Flux: the 21st Century Landscape
Links
Khan Academy – The Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck
Globalization and Education
- US Department of Education International Strategy 2012-16
- Globalization and Higher Education paper by Marginson, S. & Wende, M. van der (2007)
- Association of American Colleges & Universities
Big Data/Learning Analytics
Books
- Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom by John C. Bean
- From Brain to Mind: Using Neuroscience to Guide Change in Education by James E. Zull
- How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose et al.
- How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition
- Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown
- Mind, Brain, and Education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom by David Sousa
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain