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Problem Focused Learning
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 8:00 - 2:30 - University Union

KEYNOTE SPEAKER : DEANNA SELLNOW
She is the Gifford Blyton Endowed Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication at the University of Kentucky. She has published and presented her scholarship in international, national, regional, and state venues. Her work focuses on problem-based learning, service-learning, experiential education, learning style theory, teacher training, assessment, technology-enhanced learning, and gender issues in the classroom. She has conducted workshops for professional groups and university faculty across the country.  Her work with learning styles is also currently being used to help shape messages to instruct various publics during crisis events.

Agenda: View Abstracts

Time	Location	Session	Speaker	Topic
8:00–8:30	Registration and Refreshments
8:30-8:45	Opening Remarks Welcome		Jen Zapf Chancellor Harden
8:45-10:15	Phoenix B	Keynote Workshop	Deanna Sellnow	Keynote Workshop Why Johnny (and Janie) Can’t Think:  Improving Communication, Teamwork, and Critical Thinking Skills through Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Pedagogy
10:30-11:15	Concurrent Session 1
	1965 Room	1A	Deanna Sellnow	Strategies for Teaching with a Problem-Focus Strategies for Integrating Problem-based learning Successfully in YOUR courses.
	Phoenix A	1B	Lucy Arendt	Promoting Problem-Focused Learning in the Major Real Organiations are a Mess: An Example of Psuedo-problem-Based Learning.
	Phoenix C	1C	Mark Lattery	Scholarship on Problem-Focused Learning Research on Student Model Formation and Development in Physics.
11:30-12:15	Concurrent Session 2
	1965 Room	2A	Deanna Sellnow	Strategies for Teaching with a Problem-Focus Strategies for Integrating Problem-based learning Successfully in YOUR courses.
	Phoenix A	2B	Georgeanna Wilson-Doenges, Denise Bartell, Regan Gurung, Steve Meyer	Promoting Problem-Focused Learning in General Education/with 1st Year Students Interdsciplinary Problem-Focused Learning in a First-Year Seminar Program.
	MAC 122	2C	Hosung Song	Promoting Problem-Focused Learning with Online or Web Technologies Tablet Technologies for Problem-Focused Learning In-Class.
12:15-1:30	Phoenix B	Lunch
				Presentation of UWGB Teaching Scholar Certificates
			Derek Jeffreys
1:45-2:30	Concurrent Session 3
	1965 Room	3A	John Koker	Strategies for Teaching with a Problem-Focus Creating a Classroom Atmosphere that Promotes a Problem-based Focus.
	Phoenix A	3B	Katia Levintova	Promoting Problem-Focused Learning in General Education Courses Global Citizens are Made, Not Born: Multi-Class Role-Playing Simulation of Global Decision-Making!
	Phoenix C	3C	Janet Reilly Kathy Immel	Short Topics in Problem-Focused Learning Problem-Focused Learning and Working with Groups in Cyberspace. Post-hole Problems in Abnormal Psychology: An Exercise In Problem-Focused Learning.
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