Rush Hour Round Tables are informal, faculty led discussions on experiences related to improving teaching and learning. Roundtables are scheduled late in the afternoon on a weekday. Faculty are invited to stop by and enjoy a short presentation and conversation in an informal setting. The exchange of ideas between all present is one of the highlights of a roundtable.

Rush Hour Round Tables are held from 4-5:00PM in the Faculty Development Center Suite located in Rm. 420 of the Emerson Library

Fall 2009 Round Table Schedule

Wikis… Nings… what is the world coming to?

Mary Ann Drake RN, Ph.D., Nursing Department

Date: Tuesday, September 15

“Weekee weekee” for the traveler in Hawaii means quickly.  A wiki is a collaborative web page where anyone is free quickly contribute to the building of a collective web reource.  How can something powerful enough to build the popular Wikipedia support learning in the classroom?  Mary Ann will discuss her initial development of wikis in a Community Health Nursing course. Come join us, and bring your questions and ideas!

Exploring Business Processes through a Serious Gaming Pilot Project

Betty Rottman, D.Mgt., Management Department

Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Engaging students in real-world problems with greater impact on a variety of learning styles can lead to increased student learning. Serious gaming offers deeper, more meaningful teaching opportunities for creating an active learning environment that develops teamwork, leadership and decision-making skills using a real-world scenario. Betty will demonstrate her experience with IBM Innov8 and we’ll discuss other serious games that may be useful in your disciplines.

Using Interactive Web Data Visualizations/Calculations in Your Course

John Aleshunas, Ph.D. candidate, Math & Computer Science Department

Date: TBD

Using WebMathematica, John Aleshunas, a recipient of a School of Business and Technology Faculty Innovator Award, is establishing a web-infrastructure to enable faculty to deliver interactive computation learning resources to students in a variety of disciplines. John will demonstrate how he’s applied this to his discipline of Mathematics and ways you too can explore new teaching opportunities with WebMathematica.

Creating Active Learning Environments with Clickers

Debbie Psihountas, Ph.D., Business Department

Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009

Faculty can use classroom response systems (commonly called “clickers”) to engage and assess student learning.  Debbie Psihountas, Ph.D., through her School of Business and Technology Innovators Award, will discuss her experience using clickers to generate class-wide and small-group discussion, to prepare students to get more out of lectures, to administer quizzes, and to generate feedback on student learning useful for instructors and students.