AUB - Effective Teaching and Learning

Pre-Conference Workshops

Technology in Team Based Learning (TBL). Team-based learning (TBL) is an effective teaching approach aimed at engaging students with content and with each other. Readiness Assessment Tests (iRAT/gRAT), and group activities are two essential components of TBL. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce participants to strategies that will help them effectively design TBL sessions by integrating technology in a way that demonstrates how the educational process drives technology and not the opposite.

Don’t Suspend it, Blend it. What will your students do when you are away?

At some point during the semester educators might need to skip some classes to attend workshops, conferences or meetings. In this workshop, you will learn how to use the online environment effectively in order to compensate for the skipped sessions. Topics include: Introduction to the blended learning,, designing blended learning modules, and integrating online work with face-to-face work.

Developing Tools to Assess Program Learning Outcomes. This workshop is intended to present hand-on activities on developing tools for assessing program learning outcomes. The workshop will provide a list of different tools, indirect and direct, however will concentrate on the following assessment methods: surveys, focus groups (indirect), essay prompts, capstone courses and rubrics (direct). Participants are requested to bring their program learning outcomes to the workshop in order to align assessment tools with their program learning outcomes.

Enhancing University Students' Cognitive Skills. University faculty members are expected to encourage intellectual skills and critical thinking through the questions they pose, activities they plan, and assignments they require in their courses. The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with a variety of activities which enhance students' cognitive skills and higher order thinking. During the workshop, participates will explore the cognitive process and develop new classroom activities and assignments that help students develop higher order thinking, problem-solving and reasoning abilities.