Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

Degree Works Open Labs for Advisors

Jerret Lemay and/or other members of the Registrar's office provides an open lab at this time for advisors who need to be learn how to use DegreeWorks in assisting students during advisement. Advisors are invited to drop in Degree Works open lab sessions for hands-on Q and A.

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Discussion with COIL collaborators Ina Issa and Susan Coultrap-McQuin

Ina Issa is Susan's collaborator for a COIL project linking WST 396 with International Cross-cultural Management, Ina's on-line course in Lebanon. Bring your lunch and join them to chat about their experiences and to answer questions about how the COIL project works from both sides of the partnership.

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Flipping the Classroom

This session will provide an informal discussion of the possibilities for "flipping the classroom." Under this approach, low-level tasks and assignments are completed by students outside of class while class time is devoted to individual and/or group work on higher-level cognitive tasks. This approach might use such tools as just-in-time teaching, team-based learning, or project-based learning.

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Teaching and learning are not synonymous; we can teach, and teach well, without having the students learn.

Until recently, the accepted model for instruction was based on the hidden assumption that knowledge can be transferred intact from the mind of the teacher to the mind of the learner. Faculty members focused their attention finding more efficient methods of moving on getting knowledge from their professorial heads into the heads of their students, and educational researchers tried to find better ways to affect the transfer.

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ESL/International Students: Their Challenges-Our Solutions

Are you experiencing communication or class participation challenges with ESL/International students in your classes?

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Spring Breakout Workshops 2014

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

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Fall 2013 CELT Events

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).

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Winter Breakout Workshops - 2012

Winter breakout will take place on January 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, and 20, 2012. Please register for workshops using the online registration form. The workshop schedule appears below.

Thursday, January 12