Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities
October 22-24, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia
Schedule at a Glance
Thursday, October 22, 2009
1:30 – 5:00 p.m. & 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Pre-conference workshops (Separate registration and fee required)
7:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Welcome and Overview of Conference
Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, Vice President, Office of Education and Institutional Renewal, AAC&U
7:15 – 8:15 p.m.
Opening Keynote
Reflections on the Future of Learning
Fundamental transformations are shaping the lives of young people, imposing unprecedented demands on higher education worldwide. Globalization is redrawing the cultural composition of classrooms and work and intensifying intercultural contact through migration and the media. A new global economy is redrawing aspirations and anxieties among young people world-wide. The digital revolution is giving rise to learning styles where students become dynamic agents of multi-media knowledge production in real and simulated experiential learning. In this session, Veronica Boix Mansilla will examine several enduring questions in education—Who are our learners? What matters most for them to learn? How and where will they learn best?—vis-a-vis the future of learning. She will address the key role that integrative learning can play in preparing today’s young people for the work of their generation.
Veronica Boix Mansilla, Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, and Principal Investigator and Research Associate, Project Zero, Harvard University
8:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Posters and Reception
Friday, October 23, 2009
7:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Facilitated Discussions and Continental Breakfast
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
Plenary
Integrative Learning: Redesigning Curricula, Shifting Institutional Culture
Students today face an increasing complex world that will demand more of their education. How can colleges and universities prepare students for answering questions that have no clear answers, for undertaking jobs not yet created, for using technologies not yet invented, and for solving problems not yet identified? Institutions must adopt new content, pedagogy, and modes of inquiry that help students successfully address these complexities. Part of the challenge lies in shifting institutional culture to recognize the need for integrative capacities to address subjects such as sustainable development and globalization. In this plenary, R. Bruce Hutton will discuss a comprehensive approach to redesigning the curriculum to prepare students for the great issues of our time—and shifting institutional culture to sustain it.
R. Bruce Hutton, Dean Emeritus and Piccinati Professor in Teaching Innovation, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
12:30 – 2:15 p.m.
Luncheon Plenary (separate registration and fee required)
The AAC&U and Carnegie Foundation Integrative Learning Project: Charting and Sustaining Progress
In 2004, AAC&U and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching partnered on a joint Integrative Learning Project, noting, “fostering students’ abilities to integrate learning—across courses, over time, and between campus and community life—is one of the most important goals and challenges of higher education.” In this luncheon panel, representatives from project campuses will examine the ways in which institutions can successfully advance and sustain integrative learning over time and across departments and units. They will address concrete strategies and challenges associated with making integrative learning a central part of campus culture and fostering leadership for these efforts.
J. Elizabeth Clark, Professor of English, LaGuardia Community College; Marion W. Roydhouse, Dean School of Liberal Arts, Philadelphia University; and June Pierce Youatt, Senior Associate Provost, Michigan State University
2:15 – 5:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Saturday, October 24, 2009
7:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Facilitated Discussions and Continental Breakfast
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Plenary
Supporting Integrative and Lifelong Learning through Authentic Assessment, Teaching, and E-portfolio Development
AAC&U’s VALUE project (Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education) seeks to contribute to the national dialogue on assessment of student learning. It builds on a philosophy of learning assessment that privileges multiple expert judgments of the quality of student work. Three members of leadership campuses from the VALUE project will discuss interpretations of integrative learning and examine broad issues that are likely to emerge when faculty and their institutions begin to take up the teaching, learning, and assessment of integrative learning.
Marcia Mentkowski, Professor of Psychology and Director, Educational Research and Evaluation, Alverno College; Melissa Peet, Research Associate, University of Michigan; and Julia Williams, Professor of English and Executive Director, Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Complete Preliminary Program (pdf)
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