Date: September 25th, 2014 at
2-3:00 PM Eastern
Virginia
Tech
Website: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/322017114
Education, writ large, has a tendency
to look for and accept "silver bullets," uber-easy and
uber-effective solutions to complex and complicated problems, without the
necessary scrutiny. Unfortunately, this silver bullet search has taken our
collective eyes off of more solid approaches to assessment in education. This
webinar will move the conversation from silver bullets to embedded
assessments in the teaching and learning process, resulting in
"assessment for free." The concept of "assessment for
free" results from situations where the focus is on creating learning
environments/activities/experiences that naturally yield an artifact -
presentation, product, paper, processing, performance - that can then be used
to assess student learning and development. There is plenty of rhetoric and
noise in today's educational systems; it's time to move forward proactively
in creating instructional environments that focus on student learning and
assessment, using the process itself as a catalyst.
About the Presenter
Peter E. Doolittle is Assistant
Provost for Teaching and Learning, Executive Director of the Center for
InstructionalDevelopment and Educational Research (CIDER), and Professor of
Educational Psychology in the Department of Learning Sciences and
Technologies at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. His academic background
includes 25 years teaching undergraduate and graduate students in public and
private universities; using traditional, blended, and online formats; across
several subject areas, including advanced educational psychology, cognition
and instruction, constructivism and education, and college teaching. In addition,
he created the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education, the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, and the
Mastering Flipped Classes: Building Better Learning Environments
professional development seminars. At Virginia Tech, he was awarded the
University Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Certificate of
Teaching Excellence and Graduate Student Advising Award from the College of
Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the
School of Education. His current research focus includes the investigation of
working memory capacity and learning efficacy in multimedia learning
environments. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and
chapters, provided over 50 keynote and invited addresses, presented at over
100 conference presentations, and received in excess of $2 million in grants.
