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

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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 Problem-Solving and the Good Life
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
Chris Vanden Houten
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.