CWSEI Events

upcoming events
Date	Time	Event	location
April 8, 2013	~9am - 2:30pm	2013 CWSEI End-of-Year Event	Earth Sciences Building

PAST EVENTS (2007-Present)
Date	Event	File
Nov 2, 2012	Celebrate Learning Week Session: Interactive Engagement in Large Classes: Methods and Examples from the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative description
Oct 16, 2012	Seminar - Simon Bates Senior Advisor, Teaching and Learning, and Academic Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), UBC "Just how good are student-generated assessment questions?"
Apr 20, 2012	2012 CWSEI End-of-Year Event
Feb 20, 2012	Seminar - Janice Gobert (Professor of Psychology and Learning Sciences, and of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ) "Learning with scientific simulations: Affordances for performance assessment and student learning"
Dec 2011	Workshop - Cynthia Heiner and Peter Newbury (Physics and Astronomy, UBC) "Effective Peer Instruction Using Clickers"
Oct 19, 2011	Seminar -Joe Ferrare (Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Capturing Multiple Dimensions of Instructional Practice: The Teaching Dimensions Observation Protocol"
Sept 22, 2011	Seminar - Brett Gilley (Science Teaching and Learning Fellow, CWSEI) "2-stage Exam Session" Click HERE for watch the video (MP4) or right click to download the file (512 MB)
June 24, 2011	Seminar - Taylor Martin (Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin) "Learning Processes in Online Graphic Environments: The Added Value of Visualization and Modeling"
April 29, 2011	2011 CWSEI End-of-Year Event
Jan 17, 2011	Seminar - David Bressoud (DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics, Macalester College) "Issues of the Transition to University Mathematics"
Aug 17, 2010	Seminar - Kenneth Koedinger (Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Psychology & Director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, Carnegie Mellon University) "Learning Science and Technology to Understand Your Domain and Improve Student Learning"
Aug 4, 2010	Seminar - Daniel Kaplan (Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Macalester College) "Statistical Modeling as Part of Science"
May 31, 2010	Seminar - Dan Schwartz (Professor of Education, Stanford University) "Missed in Plain Sight: Effects of instruction on noticing and transfer"
May 20, 2010	Seminar - Sam McKagan (American Association of Physics Teachers and McKagan Enterprises) "Using the PER User's Guide and Adopting/Adapting Course Materials"
Apr 27, 2010	2010 CWSEI End-of-Year Event
Apr 9, 2010	Seminar - Alan Schoenfeld (Professor of Education and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley) "Learning to Think Mathematically (or like a scientist, or a writer, or...)"
Mar 25, 2010	Seminar - Richard Shavelson (Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology, Stanford University) “On Assessing Science Learning in Higher Education”
Nov 9, 2009	Seminar - Rachel Scherr (Research Assistant Professor, Physics Education Research Group, University of Maryland) "Accounting for tutorial teaching assistants' buy-in to reform instruction"
Oct 29, 2009	Special Seminar- Steve Pollock (Associate Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder) "A research-based approach to transforming an upper-division electricity and magnetism course"
Oct 29, 2009	Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - Steve Pollock (Associate Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder) "Understanding Educational Reforms: Impacts of Physics Education Research"
Oct 27, 2009	Seminar - Celebrate Learning Week: Bruce Dunham and Eugenia Yu (Department of Statistics, UBC) "Identifying and Addressing Student Difficulties in an Introductory Statistics Course"
Sept 30, 2009	Seminar - Robert Bjork (Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UCLA) "How we learn versus how we think we learn: Implications for the design and evaluation of instruction"
July 20, 2009	Seminar - Beth Simon (Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego) "Peer Instruction for the First Time: Experiences of a First Time User in Computer Science"
May 26, 2009	Seminar - Perry Samson (Professor - Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan) "Lecture Tools: A Powerful Alternative to Clickers"
Apr 29, 2009	2009 CWSEI End-of-Year Event	Agenda
Feb 27,2009	Seminar - Paul Denny (The University of Auckland: New Zealand) "PeerWise - students sharing and evaluating multiple choice questions"
Feb 11, 2009	Seminar -Wendy Adams (Co-Director of PhET and Director of Research, CU-SEI) "A Balance - Effective Levels of Guidance for Student Engagement and Learning"
Oct 23, 2008	Seminar - Bill Wood (University of Colorado: Boulder) "Changing the way undergraduates are taught in a research-oriented biology department"
Oct 16, 2008	Seminar - David Caprette (Rice University) "Assessing an Undergraduate Lab Program"
Oct 3, 2008	Seminar - Celebrate Learning Week: Carl Wieman "How People Learn: Implications for Teachers and Students" Video - October 2008
Oct 3, 2008	Seminar - Celebrate Learning Week: Lee Shulman "When Learning is Truly Celebrated" Video - October 2008	Abstract
Oct 2, 2008	Celebrate Learning Week, UBC Learning Conference: Learning Goals Symposium "Learning Goals: What, Why, How": Beth Simon, Jared Taylor, and Steve Wolfman A Glimpse into the Process of Creating Learning Goals (Simon & Wolfman) "Bringing Learning Goals to Fruition": Francis Jones and Brett Gilley
Oct 1, 2008	Seminar - Celebrate Learning Week: Sara Harris and Douw Steyn (Dept of Earth and Ocean Sciences) "Keeping the feedback loop active: Critical incidents for learning"
Sep 26, 2008	New Science Faculty Workshop #2: Carl Wieman "Implementing principles of learning"
Sep 19, 2008	New Science Faculty Workshop #1: Carl Wieman "How People Learn, the Science of Learning"
Aug 5, 2008	Seminar: Esther S.C. Ho (Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Kwong Wai Leung (Centre Manager of HKPISA Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong) "Characteristics of East Asian Learners: What we have learned from international studies"
Jul 28, 2008	Seminar: David C. Berliner (Regents' Professor, Arizona State University) "Studying Expert Teachers"
Jul 15, 2008	Seminar: Simon Bates (Professor of Physics Education,University of Edinburgh, UK) "Physics Education (Research) in the UK: notes from a (very small island)"
Apr 28, 2008	CWSEI End-of-Year-Event - Presentation Slides: Chemistry Computer Science Earth and Ocean Sciences Life Sciences Physics and Astronomy Statistics	Agenda
Apr 15, 2008	Seminar: Dan Schwartz (Professor of Education, Stanford University) "The Transfer of Learning"
Apr 3, 2008	Seminar: Helen MacGillvray (Professor, Queensland University of Technology's School of Mathematical Sciences & Director of its Maths Access Centre) "Roles of Assessment in Learning in Statistics and Mathematics"
Mar 19, 2008	Seminar: Carl Wieman (Director, Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative) "What All Instructors Should Know About Learning"
Jan 30, 2008	Seminar: Wendy Adams (Director of Research, Science Education Initiative, University of Colorado-Boulder) "Problem Solving; understanding and evaluating the many components of skills, processes, and beliefs"
Nov 19, 2007	Seminar: Michelle Smith (Science Teaching Fellow, University of Colorado-Boulder) "Changing how we teach genetics through learning goals, assessments, and interactive learning"
Nov 8, 2007	Seminar: Gary Gladding (Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Reforming Large Courses at a Research University: A Case Study from Physics at Illinois"
Oct 18, 2007	Seminar: Eric Mazur (Professor of Physics, Harvard University) "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer"
July 12	Seminar: Kathy Perkins (Associate Director, University of Colorado Science Education Initiative) "Studying Student Beliefs About Science: their importance and what affects them"
May 3/8, 2007	Learning Goals Workshop (Physics)
April 24, 2007	Seminar: Eric Riggs (Co-director, CRESME, Purdue University) "Streamlining a Modern Geoscience Curriculum: A Tale of Young Turks, High Teaching Loads, and Turning Lemons into Lemonade"
April 17, 2007	Seminar: Mike Dubson (Senior Instructor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder) "Creating a Highly Interactive Classroom for All Courses"
March 22/30, 2007	Learning Goals Workshop (EOS/CS)