Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy

Faculty at Virginia Tech are, on a daily basis and in very unassuming ways, demonstrating a renewed energy and focus toward the scholarship of teaching and learning. This is further evidenced by our attention to academic assessment, the integration of technology and learning, and even in the change in our teaching lexicon as we incorporate active engagement and reflective practices into instruction to encourage authentic learning. Join us as we showcase and share our collective growth, innovation, and achievement in teaching and learning.

The Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy is focused on showcasing the best pedagogical research and practice in higher education today. Sessions will address disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary challenges facing teachers and students in higher education and will disseminate the latest research aimed at improving the quality of undergraduate and graduate education.

General Information:

Keynote Presenters:

Lisa R. Lattuca: Dr. Lattuca studies the intersections of curriculum, teaching, student learning, and faculty work in higher education, addressing questions such as how faculty attitudes and behaviors related to curricular planning and instruction influence student learning in higher education, why and how faculty adopt new forms of knowledge production (e.g., interdisciplinary research), and how both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives affect faculty work and student learning in colleges and universities. In her current research projects, Dr. Lattuca is exploring these topics in the context of undergraduate engineering programs. In addition, she is the author of Creating Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching among College and University Faculty (2001), co-editor (with Elizabeth Creamer) of Advancing Faculty Learning through Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2005), and co-author (with Joan S. Stark) of Shaping the College Curriculum: Academic Plans in Context (2009).

Mary Taylor Huber: Dr. Huber is a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, directs the Integrative Learning Project , and works closely with the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Since joining the Foundation in 1985, she has written widely on changing cultures of teaching in higher education and is co-author of the Foundation report, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate (1997), co-editor of Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground (2002), and author of Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers (2004). A cultural anthropologist, with a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh , she has also written on colonial societies and is co-editor of Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice (1999) and Irony in Action: Anthropology, Practice, and the Moral Imagination (2001). Her latest book, co-authored with Carnegie Vice President Pat Hutchings, is The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (2005).

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