Spring Breakout 2014 schedule
The spring breakout schedule appears below. Registration is now open. To register, please use the registration form. (You must be logged into your SUNY-Oswego email account to use this form.
Monday, May 19
Ninth Annual SUNY-Oswego Symposium on Learning and Teaching:
Digital Humanities
October 11 and 12, 2013
Registration is available here.
Friday, October 11
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers various workshops and seminars. Fall semester workshops include:
Friday, August 23 - "Jumpstart on Teaching" - John Kane (12:40 - 1:35 pm, 123 Penfield).
Friday, August 23 - "iPad Project / Using mobile devices to enhance learning" - John Kane (3:00 - 4:00, 123 Penfield).
Winter Breakout 2014 schedule
Tuesday, January 14
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers various workshops and seminars. Spring semester workshops include:
The SUNY Cooperative Online International Learning (COIL) initiative is designed to support the development of classes in which students in domestic classes interact in a meaningful manner with students from a partner class in a foreign country. Student interaction may be synchronous or asynchronous and relies on a variety of web 2.0 tools (including wikis, blogs, Nings, course management systems, Skype, Google talk, Google Docs, VoiceThread, YouTube, Vimeo, Imgur, and Picasa). Three faculty members at Oswego are currently developing COIL classes.
Many educators have read about and trained in the theory of "learning styles". Believers in learning styles contend that people have an innate style in which they learn best (kinesthetic, auditory, visual, for example), and that matching instruction to that learning style will enable students to learn better. While there are appealing aspects of this approach (students ARE different in the way they learn), and may make intuitive sense, the research supporting learning styles is very weak. This presentation will explore the idea learning styles, and highlight the arguments made by suppor
