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 Are
you making your summer plans? Consider spending a week in
Hawaii participating in a professional development workshop
designed to transform your teaching and your students’
learning.
During the week of May 24-28, 2010 the Experiential Learning
Center (ELC) is embarking on its first Pacific Region Learning
Summit. (The Experiential Learning Center provided an
excellent track on Scenario-Based Learning at MPICT’s Faculty
Development Week last summer.)
The Summit is provided in partnership with Leeward Community
College, which will host the event at its campus on the island
of Oahu, together with Foothill College and De Anza College in
California.
The event features two tracks:
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Transforming Instruction with Problem Based Learning (PBL)
This track leads you through the steps required to add
problem-based learning to your classroom. You will prepare a
course that uses tasks from our online library or create
your own PBL tasks, find industry volunteers to visit your
classroom, practice facilitating student groups, and design
feedback and assessment items for different levels of
student work
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iCourse Design
This track takes instructors through the process of
rethinking their course for online delivery. You will learn
how to modify what you are doing in the classroom to
delivery it effectively online. Online learning is a
different way of learning and participants will be taken
through the process of process of shifting from traditional
to online instruction.
All participants will benefit from:
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 a
keynote address
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a meet-and-greet time with local industry representatives in
the fields of information and computer science, hotel and
tourism, and agriculture who will be connecting with
participants to help incorporate "real world" into classes
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experts in building teamwork in the classroom
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an expert in building assessment into courses
Great Evening and Weekend Entertainment Options are Available
For more information and to register, please visit the
website:
http://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/prls2010/
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