The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers various workshops and seminars for new faculty and staff. While these workshops are designed for new members of the college community, any faculty or staff member is welcome to attend. Fall semester workshops include:

Ninth Annual SUNY-Oswego Symposium on Learning and Teaching:
Digital Humanities

October 11 and 12, 2013

Registration is available here.

Friday, October 11

Winter Breakout 2014 schedule

Tuesday, January 14

The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers various workshops and seminars. Spring semester workshops include:

Wednesday, February 5 - "What is Open SUNY?" - webinar offered by Carey Hatch (SUNY Associate Provost), Ken O'Brien (chair of the Provost's Open SUNY Advisory Council), Peter Knuepfer (President of the University Faculty Senate), Tina Good or her representative (President of the Faculty Council of Community Colleges), and other faculty and profe4ssional staff involved in the Open SUNY effort. (1:00 - 2:00 pm, 123 Penfield).

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