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Welcome to Lilly - Traverse City

Lilly Conferences have provided opportunities for the presentation of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for over 25 years. Participants come from a multitude of disciplines and from throughout the US and from abroad.

The 10th Annual Lilly–Traverse City Conference, will be held September 23 –26, 2010 in beautiful downtown Traverse City, Michigan.

Review of Lilly–TC 2010

Last year, for the 7th time in a row, the Lilly –TC conference was once again sold out. As before, evaluations were extremely high and casual conversations indicated participants were extremely pleased with the conference.

This year the overall conference theme is Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching. This theme was chosen to reflect that approaches to teaching and learning should be based on scholarly activity. As disciplinary approaches use scholarly work to investigate and advance knowledge, pedagogical innovation should also advance by building on the work of others. The Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching – Traverse City brought together faculty from a variety of disciplines and at various stages of their academic careers to share new advances in teaching and learning.

Within the overall conference theme of Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching, there are four major subthemes to focus our discussions again this year: Engaged Learning; Promoting Social Responsibility; E-Learning; and Creating Communities of Learners.

Engaged Learning:   Focusing on ways to promote learning in which students are actively involved with the course material. Examples include (but are not limited to) problem-based learning, group projects, interactive discussions, and demonstrations.

Promoting Social Responsibility:   There is no longer any doubt that we live in a changing global environment, and as a result we are increasingly responsible for our impact on the environment and our interactions with others from a wide variety of cultures. This track will include (but is not limited to) the latest findings and approaches in the areas of diversity, global climate change, sustainability, service-learning, and ethics within education.

E-Learning:   Identifying ways in which the integration of a wide variety of technologies promotes learning. Technologies presented will include (but are not limited to) best ways to include course management tools, student response systems, online collaboration tools, blogs, and chats.

Creating Communities of Learners:   The affective domain and social support are often ignored in discussions of learning, but how students interact and support one another is an important aspect to learning. Sessions in this area will focus on learning communities, respect in the classroom, classroom civility and incivility, building support systems, and the impact of the affective domain on learning.

 

For more information about the 2010 Lilly Conference, please contact:

Todd Zakrajsek
Conference Director