Schedule

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9:30AM – 10:00AM

CHECK-IN AND BREAKFAST


10:00AM – 10:05AM

Welcome – Kathy Takayama, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning


10:05AM – 11:00AM

OPENING SESSION

Panel: Innovating for Student Engagement

Panelists:
Susan Boynton, Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music
Rachel Gordon, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Q​i​ngfan Jiang, Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Russell O’Rourke, Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Christina Sanders, Student, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Daniel Manson, Student, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Moderator:
Kathy Takayama, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning


11:15AM – 12:15PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Integrating High Impact Practices in the Core Curriculum
High-Impact Practices (HIPs) are specific learning experiences that can have a high impact on students’ engagement and retention. In this workshop, Alheli D. Alvarado-Diaz will share how she brought these practices to her Contemporary Civilization core seminar. In this workshop, participants will discuss both the “why” and the “how” of these practices and will consider effective strategies that can be incorporated into courses.

Presenter:
Alhelí Alvarado-Díaz, Lecturer in History, Department of History

Session Chairs:
Aurora Collado, Learning Designer II, Center for Teaching and Learning
Michelle Hall, Associate Director of Educational Technology and Instructional Design, Center for Teaching and Learning

Bringing Coding into Non-coding Courses
A roundtable discussion with Profs. Adam Cannon of Computer Science and Karl Sigman of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, on the rewards and challenges of teaching coding and computational thinking in an interdisciplinary context to non-Computer Science majors. They will share some of the projects from their classes and engage with each other and audience members on key topics, including the difference between computational thinking and coding, the digital literacy imperative for all students, and unexpected discoveries from their interdisciplinary teaching. Bring your questions!

Presenters:
Adam Cannon, Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science
Karl Sigman, Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Session Chair:
Lucy Appert, Associate Director of Educational Technology and Instructional Design, Center for Teaching and Learning

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
How can we innovatively teach historical thinking? In this session, three faculty members will share their experiences with transforming their history courses into laboratories using activities such as archival research and digital history, visual and material literacy, and data analysis to engage students. Roundtable participants include Thai Jones, Herbert H. Lehman Curator for American History at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Donna Bilak, of Columbia’s Making and Knowing Project; and Matthew Connelly, co-PI of Columbia’s History Lab project.

Presenters: 
Thai Jones, Lehman Curator for American History and Lecturer in the Department of History
Donna Bilak, Lecturer in the Discipline of History, Department of History
Matthew Connelly, Professor of History, Department of History

Session Chair:
Andrew Flatgard, Learning Designer II, Center for Teaching and Learning


LUNCH (45 minutes)


1:15PM – 2:15PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Facilitating Experiential Learning
Experiential learning is a learner-centred approach which starts with the premise that people learn best from experience. Students develop knowledge, skills, and values from direct experiences outside a traditional academic setting. In this workshop, Amy Werman and Rachel Gordon will share their creative solutions to providing professional work experiences for their students. Participants will have an opportunity to consider strategies and opportunities for designing their own using experiential learning activities.

Presenters:
Rachel Gordon, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Amy Werman, Lecturer in Social Work, School of Social Work

Session Chair:
Michelle Hall, Associate Director of Educational Technology and Instructional Design, Center for Teaching and Learning

Media Analysis in New Contexts
This panel will illustrate and compare two innovative approaches to multimedia-driven study at Columbia. In a Music Humanities course, undergraduates are analyzing musical passages with unprecedented specificity, through the use of visualization software. In the Oral History Masters of Arts program, deep monitoring of audio tracks is driving new insight into the interview process and its mix of subjectivities. In each case students are producing an ‘overlay’ of media in order to better understand source material, and sharing insights in Columbia’s Mediathread analysis platform.

Presenters:
Susan Boynton, Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music
Mary Marshall Clark, Senior Research Scientist, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics
Nyssa Chow, Graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program

Session Chair:
Mark Phillipson, Director of Graduate Student Teaching Initiatives and Programs, Center for Teaching and Learning

Graduate Student Lightning Talks

Five graduate students, all alumni of the CTL’s Innovative Teaching Summer Institute and each representing a different discipline, will be presenting the implementation of an innovative assignment in brief lightning talks. Each presenter will be using 8 slides in 8 minutes.

Presenters:
Molly Rosa Avila, PhD candidate, Slavic Languages & Literatures, GSAS
Whitney Cowell, PhD candidate, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Nicole Gervasio, PhD candidate, English Language & Literature, GSAS
Ryan Hagen, PhD candidate, Sociology, GSAS
Orit Hilewicz, PhD candidate, Music, GSAS

Session Chair:
Alexia Ferracuti, Assistant Director of Teaching Initiatives and Programs, Center for Teaching and Learning


BREAK (15 minutes)


2:30PM – 3:30PM

CLOSING SESSION

New Opportunities for Making Student Learning Visible
How do we assess curriculum changes? What aspects of a course redesign need to be considered and what types of data inform the assessment? In this session participants will consider different aspects of assessments as well as considerations and strategies for implementation with examples given in Engineering, Spanish, and Chemistry.

Speakers: 
Angelina Craig-Florez, Senior Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Katherine Reuther, Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Sarah Hansen, Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry

Session Chair:
Paul Stengel, Learning Designer II, Center of Teaching and Learning


3:30PM – 4:00PM

Who are you? What have you got to share with us?


4:00PM – 5:00PM

Faculty & Graduate Student Poster Reception