Research showcase Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Classrooms

Description: "Research on Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Classrooms" * Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute There is growing recognition that significant education reform is necessary at the undergraduate level to adequately prepare students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines to compete in the global marketplace. One of the biggest challenges for many of the large science and engineering courses is they are still lecture based, a format that promotes passive rather than active learning. This panel provides a perspective on research on teaching and learning being conducted by disciplinary faculty in STEM departments at the national level with specific examples of work being done in the Department of Biology at Case Western Reserve University. Date: April 16th, 2009 Location: Veale Convocation Center on the campus of Case Western Reserve University Moderator: Mano Singham Panelists: James E. Jamos, Robert Brown, Nancy Dilulio