4th Annual
Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy

The 4th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy is focused on higher education teaching excellence and the scholarship of teaching and learning. The conference showcases the best pedagogical practice and research in higher education today. Sessions address disciplinary and interdisciplinary instructional strategies, outcomes, and research. Ultimately, the conference is an opportunity to demonstrate effective instructional practice and disseminate the latest research aimed at improving the quality of higher education.

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General Information:

When:	Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 8-10, 2012
Where:	The Inn at Virginia Tech and the Skelton Conference Center
Who:	Faculty, Administrators and Students
Proposals Due:	Sunday, October 2, 2011 (Proposals Closed)

Keynote Presenters:

Todd Zakrajsek: Dr. Zakrajsek will address Teaching for Learning: An Evidence-Based Examination of Key Pedagogical Concepts, highlighting important developments in pedagogical research and suggesting approaches for staying current with college teaching and learning literature. Dr. Zakrajsek is the Executive Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was previously the Inaugural Director of the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching at Central Michigan University and the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Southern Oregon University, where he also taught in the psychology department as a tenured associate professor. Dr. Zakrajsek also directs two Lilly Conferences on Teaching and Learning, one in Traverse City, Michigan and the other in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Zakrajsek received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Ohio University, and has published and presented widely on the topic of student learning, including workshops and conference keynote addresses in 37 states and 4 countries.

Kobina Yankson: Professor Yankson will bring his international perspectives to a discussion of Instructional Excellence and Scholarship: Essentials for Effective Teaching in Higher Education. Prof. Yankson, of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, is a Professor of Zoology; a Commonwealth Fellow; Darwin Initiative Fellow; Fulbright Scholar; Fellow of The Institute of Biology (Gh.) and past President of West Africa Science Association and Ghana Science Association. He was, for eight years, the Editor-In-Chief of Everyday Science for Schools Magazine; was cited in “Who is Who in Science and Technology Education in Africa” in 1997; Selected “Man of the Year” 1998 by the American Biographical Institute and inducted into the “Leading Scientists of the World” in 2008 by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge in recognition of his accomplishments in Molluscan Shellfish Research in Particular, and Science in general. He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Science, former Pro Vice-Chancellor and currently Director of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance at University of Cape Coast (UCC).

Contact Information:

Chair		Co-Chair
Cortney Martin		Lauren Bryant
109 Hillcrest Hall		122 Hillcrest Hall
(540) 230-9366		(540) 231-6823
martinc@vt.edu		labryant@vt.edu

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111 Hillcrest Hall (0453), Blacksburg, VA 24061
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