Prof. Richard Felder & Dr. Rebecca Brent will be conducting their world-renowned 2-day workshop on:
EFFECTIVE TEACHING FOR OUTCOME-BASED HIGHER EDUCATION
20th – 21st May 2014
The Puteri Pacific Johor Bahru
RM 1800 (USD 600) Early Bird
RM 2200 (USD 750) Normal
This workshop provides tools and strategies for engineering and science instructors to make their classes more effective. Topics address include the following:
- How do students learn? How do teachers teach? What goes wrong in the process? (Learning and teaching styles)
- How do I plan a course? How do I identify learning objectives and use them to make sure that my lessons, activities, assignments, and exams are aligned?
- How do I assess learning and skill development? How do I design instruction and assessment for learning outcomes specified in the ABET Engineering Criteria and the Washington Accord? How do I design tests that are both rigorous and fair?
- What can I do in the first week to get my course off to a good start?
- What do I need to do to be an effective lecturer?
- How can I get students actively involved in learning, even if there are 200 in the class?
- How can new staff members become fully effective in teaching and productive in research in 1–2 years instead of the usual 4–5 years?
The workshop has been given on campuses throughout the world. It has been exceptionally well received by the participants. Of the 4896 participants who submitted evaluations since 1996, 81% gave the workshop the top rating of “Excellent,” 19% rated it “Good,” less than 1% rated it “Average,” and none rated it “Fair” or “Poor.” The presenters received “Excellent” ratings from 89% of the participants, “Good” from 11%, and “Average” from less than 1%.
