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The 2015 National Forum on Active Learning Classrooms (NF-ALC) at the University of Minnesota focuses on advancing practice and research on active learning classroom spaces. The NF-ALC will feature new session formats (see the Submission Guidelines) designed to provide opportunities for participants to demonstrate innovative practices and research that leverage the advantages of technology-enhanced learning spaces and active learning pedagogies. Our expectation is that participants from a wide variety of institutions will attend the NF-ALC to a) examine common issues affecting the effective use of these spaces and chart a path for their resolution; b) share successful practices that have enriched the student and faculty experience in active learning classrooms; and c) build and deepen networks with colleagues in order to advance their campus efforts. The forum is framed by the alignment between the use of new learning spaces and achieving the academic priorities of many universities and colleges, such as increased retention, improved graduation rates, student engagement, emerging technologies, and global learning. Since these priorities are of broad interest to all working in higher education, international participation is most welcome.

The 2013 National Forum on Active Learning Classrooms (NF-ALC) at the University of Minnesota focuses on advancing practice and research on active learning classroom spaces. The NF-ALC will feature new session formats (see the Submission Guidelines) designed to provide opportunities for participants to demonstrate innovative practices and research that leverage the advantages of technology-enhanced learning spaces and active learning pedagogies. Our expectation is that participants from a wide variety of institutions will attend the NF-ALC to a) examine common issues affecting the effective use of these spaces and chart a path for their resolution, b) share successful practices that have enriched the student and faculty experience in active learning classrooms, and c) build and deepen networks with colleagues in order to advance their campus efforts.

"Using Grading Strategies to Understand and Improve Student Learning Workshop October 12-13, 2012 Cambridge, MA Good grading and good teaching go hand in hand. If you haven't taken a fresh look at your assessment strategies recently, it's likely that you're missing some powerful ways to improve your courses and deepen the caliber of learning that takes place in your classroom. The purpose of this exclusive two-day event is to help you create purposeful, meaningful opportunities for students to learn exactly what you want them to learn. This workshop is designed to give you the freedom to think in new and innovative ways about how you teach and how you assess student learning. The dual presenters have prepared a full menu of engaging activities for reflecting deliberately and developing the types of assessments that will improve the learning experience in your courses. In Using Grading Strategies to Understand and Improve Student Learning, a pair of leading experts in classroom assessment will lead you through a concentrated two-day workshop designed to provide you with new tools and insights for redesigning your assessment strategies. At the end of this event, you will understand how and why improving the quality of the assessments you use in your college courses can raise the level of learning in your classroom."

This Institute gives instructional faculty an intensive experience in teaching and learning to support deep learning in post-secondary students. The institute is developed around core teaching strategies from planning for deep learning experiences, connecting learning objectives to rich assessment and evaluation methods, building in active learning activities into the class, obtaining feedback and formative assessment from students to planning a lesson and incorporating reflective practice into being a professional educator.

The 13th annual learning conference explores how we can design, assess, and facilitate learning that engages every learner, allowing each student to build their own knowledge and contribute their own strengths to their learning and the learning of their classmates and instructors. Together, we'll explore questions that reach through and beyond content and pedagogical content knowledge, like How can one instructor engage every student in a large class? How do instructors recognize and celebrate their students' diversity without risking microaggressions? What can instructors do before, during, and after class, face-to-face and online, to support each student? How does an instructor create and maintain an environment where every student feels welcome to contribute? What critical pedagogies empower each student's unique voice? What technologies enhance a student's ability to engage and contribute? What are the promising practices in your discipline? Can they be adapted to other disciplines? Keynote address by Dr.Sarah L.Eddy, "End of Lecture?  Active learning increases student achievement".

"This is the 6th annual conference on blended learning sponsored by COHERE (Collaboration for Online Higher Education & Research) and CSSHE (Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education). It will feature Dr. Tony Bates, the well known scholar and commentator on the use of technology in higher education. His latest book is Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2011). In addition to taking an active part in the entire conference and doing the conference wrap-up, Tony will deliver the following keynotes: Meeting the challenge of technology: are we failing as managers? Designing university teaching to meet the needs of 21st century students The conference will also feature a number of concurrent sessions, for which we invite proposals related to one of the following streams: 1. Taking stock of blended learning in higher education: Management, policy, and research issues 2. Case studies of teaching and learning issues related to blended learning"

"Learning analytics (LA) is the collection and analysis of data associated with student learning. The analysis of this data, coming from a variety of sources like the LMS, the library, and the student information system, helps us observe and understand learning behaviors in order to enable appropriate interventions. The reports that an LA application generates can be helpful for instructors (regarding student activities and progress), for students (regarding their progress), and for administrators (regarding course and degree completion data). LA applications help instructors monitor student progress, students evaluate their own performance, and administrators track course and degree completion. Although still emergent, learning analytics is a rapidly expanding area of research and a practice worthy of exploration."

Participants will discover new ideas that will assist their students in learning more effectively, and make teaching even more of a joy than it is already. In the finest tradition of active learning, we give all participants a voice in the classroom. And like all effective teachers, we will continue to operate from an agenda that is adaptable to the learning needs of our participants.

In 2015, join us in Vancouver, BC, as Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia host the 35th Annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) 2015 Conference on June 16 - 19, 2015 at the Westin Bayshore hotel. The conference will encourage and facilitate the improvement of teaching and learning in post-secondary education in Canada. We invite our colleagues to Canada's West Coast to dialogue about their experiences and engage in scholarly inquiry into student learning to enable us to "fine-tune" our practice as educators and educational leaders. Tune in to the beauty, enjoyment and activities Vancouver has to offer. Join us in "Achieving Harmony: Tuning into Practice".

The three-day conference is packed with learning opportunities designed to enrich your teaching practice. There are preconference workshops that provide hands-on learning, plenary sessions keynoted by nationally-recognized experts, carefully selected concurrent sessions on a range of relevant topics, poster presentations highlighting the latest research, and all sorts of occasions for informal interaction.

The Summer Institutes model the scientific teaching principles they teach. We invite college and university faculty, instructional staff, and future faculty to develop teaching skills at multi-day workshops to transform the undergraduate STEM classroom. Summer Institutes draw on the expertise of both presenters and participants. Current research, active learning, assessment, and inclusive teaching are woven into the program, creating a forum to share ideas and develop innovative instructional materials to be implemented upon returning home.

EDUCAUSE Connect is a highly interactive, action-driven professional development experience. Here you'll choose a learning track and join a cohort of peers to find workable solutions, build your professional network, and examine the tactical and strategic perspectives of key higher education IT issues. For two and a half days, you'll take part in career development activities with peers to intentionally solve, network, and grow together.

This retreat is for college and university faculty. It is based on the philosophy that well facilitated shoptalk is one of the highest forms of professional development. No individual "expert" can match the collective knowledge, experience, wisdom, creativity, and genius of 30-40 teachers who are actively involved in their profession. The participants themselves are the experts at the retreat! You will meet with other teachers from different disciplines and institutions, engage in highly interactive discussions, share successful teaching strategies and innovations, seek solutions to your own teaching problems and challenges, and much more (see instructions for Prior Preparation about what to bring to the retreat). The retreat facilitators will provide structure and guidelines to help assure effective use of retreat time, but you and the other participants will decide which issues are most important and relevant to discuss. Together, we will pursue a quest for the ideal of the "great teacher." The Red Rock Great Teaching Retreat is based on the seminar model of the National Great Teachers Movement, founded in 1969 by David Gottshall. This movement continues to grow with workshops, retreats, and seminars held across the United States, Canada, and other parts of the world.

FlipCon13 offers three days of intensive discussions, multiple sessions, and hands-on workshops. Hundreds of flipped educators from K-12 and higher education will choose between 42 Concurrent Sessions, seven Featured speakers, seven subject-specific Spotlight Sessions for job-alikes, and 14 showcases with flipped-focused companies.