The Engineering Education Showcase, which has been the definitive highlight of EETI programming in past semesters, had its sixth installment last week. During the showcase, a group of CENGR faculty and educational innovators shared some of their ideas and initiatives that promote high-quality teaching, learning, and student success. The focus of this showcase was strategies for engaging students in [Read More]

We all want to make learning active, but it is not always clear how. In this talk, Dr. Fiorella from UGA’s College of Education will distinguish between behavioral activity (what students do) and cognitive activity (what students think). He will argue active teaching should focus on supporting productive cognitive activity rather than behavioral activity per [Read More]

In EETI’s first forum of 2020, Dr. Racheida Lewis gives an interactive workshop on how to prepare students to be self-efficient, confident, and successful engineers. ————————————— Dr. Racheida Lewis is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering with an emphasis on engineering education research. Dr. Lewis’ conducts research that explores the recruitment and [Read More]

The Engineering Education Showcase is in its fourth installment and has been the definitive highlight of EETI programming in past semesters. This semester, we have decided to go with a themed showcase around a topic of great interest from this semester’s EETI Interest Survey: Student peer- and self-assessment.  During the showcase, a group of CENGR [Read More]

In this interactive forum, John Morelock will introduce five variables from Brett Jones’ MUSIC Model of Motivation that have been shown in research to affect students’ motivation to learn and excel in class.  In addition to learning about these five evidence-based variables, forum attendees will have the opportunity to reflect upon and share how these variables have manifested in their own lives and classes, brainstorm low-cost ways to further improve student motivation in their courses, and discover methods of assessing student [Read More]

In this interactive session, we will revisit several of Dr. Kristina Edstrom’s Teaching Tricks “How to improve student learning without spending more time teaching.” Since Dr. Edstrom’s visit in the spring, multiple faculty have experimented with these approaches. In this forum, we will review these tricks, share experiences, and invite participants to consider how the [Read More]

EETI is excited to welcome distinguished speaker Pablo Orduña, who will speak about remote labs in engineering education. Over the last years, the introduction of new media has profoundly affected teaching and learning practices in higher education. New media has not only changed our way of interacting and communicating with students but has also established previously [Read More]

In this interactive forum, you will be invited to engage with 20 or so Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) that ALSI participants are using in their classrooms. We will also be giving out a range of materials (books, timers, whiteboard markers…) gifted to us from the CTL because of our high rate of participation in the [Read More]