Professional Development Workshops
Active Learning • Proactive Teaching • Instructional Strategies • Pedagogical Innovation
The Science of Teaching and Learning
Leveraging Research on the Science of Learning
Workshop Description

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Workshop Goals
Format
Face-to-face or virtual
Audience
Faculty, instructional designers, grad students
Duration
One-to-three hours
Workshop Agenda (in brief)
1. Deep and Flexible Learning
1.1 What Active Learning Actually Is
1.2 Shallow and Deep Learning
2. Creating Strategies for Deep and Flexible Learning
2.1 Strategy Development
2.2 Example Strategies
3. Course Embedded Assessment
3.1 Assessment is Learning
3.1 Designing Courses for Embedded Assessment
Note: All workshops are conducted using an interactive, reflective, and constructive pedagogy. Participants will be engaged in knowledge building, example generating, and instruction creating activities throughout the workshop.
Takeaways
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Contact Information

Peter Doolittle
Blacksburg, VA 24061
pdoo@vt.edu