Teaching
faculty and staff are invited to a pedagogical luncheon from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Friday, March
22, in the Prairie-Rose Room in the Memorial Union for
enhancing student learning and comradeship among teachers. Deanna Sellnow, associate
professor of communication and interim registrar and Stephanie Ahlfeldt,
presidential graduate fellow of communication will lead the session on "Problem-Based
Learning in a General Education Skills-Based Course: Jumping in With Both Feet."
Spring 2002 marks the first semester of teaching the entire public speaking
fundamentals course (with over 800 students in more than 40 sections) as
problem-based learning. Sellnow and
Ahlfeldt will describe how the curriculum has been modified, some of the
obstacles they’ve had to overcome, and some of the results they have seen thus
far.
If
you are planning to attend the session, please register before Monday, March
18, by calling Mary Stoa at 1-8671 or sending e-mail to Mary.stoa@ndsu.nodak.edu.
The Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning (FIEL) is sponsoring this event with a grant from the Bush Foundation to promote active learning in classrooms. For more details, you may visit http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mehta/bush/ or contact Sudhir Mehta, professor of mechanical engineering, at 1-7871