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A listing of conferences with significant focus teaching and learning, from Elon University.

Bryn Mawr's first blended learning conference was a great chance to see what colleagues at a similar institution are doing with teaching with technology; the second conference should be just as good. Kenyon is a partner on their NGLC grant so our registration fee is waived.

Here's a call for presentations for an upcoming Ohio conference on teaching and learning. If you're doing something exciting, why not write it up and share it?

OSU hosts a free teaching with technology conference every spring. Lunch and light refreshments are provided, and the conference covers a number of emerging topics in higher education. If you are interested, you can register at this link by May 10.

In the summer of 2015, from July 26 to August 2, a partnership of 23 liberal arts institutions will host ILiADS, the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship, at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. ILiADS offers participants two ways to engage the community of liberal arts practitioners and pedagogues: a team- and project-based approach and a more traditional conference structure.

Good podcast episode running down a variety of significant findings in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

A report of a conference session in which a philosophy professor at John Carroll University presented her use of thought experiments as a signature pedagogy in her classes. (Also note the use of flipped classroom approaches to make the class time for the students to engage in the thought experiments.)

At the recent NITLE Symposium, Dan Cohen criticized the fact that the average academic conference is a "lean back" experience (i.e. sit back in your chair and let the information wash over you) as opposed to a "lean forward" experience (i.e. be on the edge of your chair, interacting with the speaker and other attendees). This post takes musician Bobby McFerrin as an example of a speaker who can get an audience to "lean forward." Given that McFerrin's specific decisions are most appropriate to the performing arts, what could we learn (and teach students) about the principles which this author draws out of his technique?

Bryan Alexander has an excellent, extensive list of terrific tips for public speaking. I particularly like the way he breaks down the stages of preparation and giving a talk. Might be a useful tip sheet for students - or as we enter summer conference season!

Interesting implications here for how we schedule review sessions and talk to students about studying. (And probably for our own practices around conferences and research and committee/department meetings...)

Greg Rosenbaum, K'10 and producer of the SXSWedu conference, used this Prezi during his talk at Kenyon next week. (The video will be on the CIP's YouTube channel soon.) It's a good outline of the many factors we're juggling in education; it's also a fine example of the way Prezi can make the structure of an argument apparent.

Remarkable suggestions here about the real potential benefits of being an active "moderator" for your panel and not just a time-keeper. The "take 3 questions before giving any answers" approach sounds particularly interesting.