Here’s part two of my report from the the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference & Galway Symposium on Higher Education, hosted at the National University of Ireland at Galway, June 9-10, 2011. (See part one for highlights from the first half of the conference.) The conference theme was “student engagement,” and it was certainly a strong [...]
A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Ireland for the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference & Galway Symposium on Higher Education, hosted at the National University of Ireland at Galway. This was a joint conference between the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at NUIG and NAIRTL, the National Academy for the Integration of [...]
Number four on my list of five types of mobile learning is the use of mobile devices (smart phones, tablets, and such) as platforms for delivery course content. Frankly, I find that educational technology people often focus too much on this type of mobile learning, and I’ve argued that mobile learning involves much more than [...]
I’m at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, today and tomorrow thanks to the good people at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS). I’m giving a talk here in about an hour titled “Class Time Reconsidered: Motivating Student Participation and Engagement.” My goal is to share some frameworks and strategies for engaging [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the “imagine” step in the four step model David Sibbet describes in his new book, Visual Meetings. I noted that Sibbet’s first step, which involves having meeting participants make visible their expectations and goals for a meeting, reminded me of the idea of a “private universe,” the [...]
Following up on some of my previous posts about pedagogical change, Jim Julius of San Diego State University and Dwayne Harapnuik of Abilene Christian University and I presented a session titled “Revolution or Evolution? Social Technologies and Pedagogical Change” at the 2010 POD Network conference in November. We structured the session so that most of [...]
More from the the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio back in November… A Fractal Thinker Ponders Bringing Faculty Development to Students: What If? – Ed Nuhfer, California State University-Channel Islands I was really looking forward to this session with Ed Nuhfer, and I wasn’t disappointed. I know Ed, [...]
During the final session of last week’s 2010 POD Network Conference in St. Louis, POD’s Professional Development Committee (PCD) identified several “emerging trends” in higher education. These were all programs and initiatives related to the assessment of student learning, and they included the AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) project, the National Survey of [...]
I’ll be writing more about the session at the POD Network Conference in St. Louis I facilitated last week with Dwayne Harapnuik (Abilene Christian University) and Jim Julius (San Diego State University), but I wanted to share a few observations while everything is still fresh in my mind. The session was titled “Revolution or Evolution? [...]
I was recently asked (by Stephanie Chasteen) to describe my approach to helping faculty innovate in their teaching. While I’ve been asked this question in various ways in the past, rarely have I been asked to respond in writing, as I was this time. I took a little time to compose my answer, and the [...]
Welcome to my home page. I’m Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). I’m also acting director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University.
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