Todd Zakrajsek

Director
International Teaching Learning Cooperative

Critical Challenges in Teaching and Learning: Why Teaching Students How to Learn is Essential

There is a proliferation of misinformation pertaining to how students learn and how best to teach. Research provides clear evidence pertaining to what works best in the classroom and important considerations regarding human learning. In this session we will review a few recent areas of research that have demonstrated positive effects with respect to student learning and where to find emerging information that is relatively easy to understand and apply to any course.

Biography

Todd Zakrajsek is the Director of the International Teaching Learning Cooperative and the immediate past Executive Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his work at UNC, he was 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 taught in the psychology department as a tenured associate professor. Todd currently directs two annual Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching and Learning, one in Traverse City, Michigan, and the other in Bethesda, Maryland. He also serves on the advisory board for the International Conference on Improving University Teaching. Dr. Zakrajsek received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Ohio University. He has published and presented widely on the topic of student learning, including workshops and conference keynote addresses in 38 states and 6 countries.