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The CWSEI hosted open houses, seminars, and workshops between 2007-2017, as summarized below.
If you are specifically interested in the End-of-Year (EOY) event, this page links to details up to 2016 (2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016) while the Skylight Open House page covers 2017 onward.
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 Event Type  | 
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 Presenter(s)/Affiliation  | 
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 Apr 2017  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Apr 2016  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Apr 2015  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Apr 2014  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative and Skylight  | 
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 Jan 2014  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Identifying and addressing student difficulties with proportional reasoning  | 
 Andrew Boudreaux, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Western Washington University  | 
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 Apr 2013  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Mar 2013  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Identifying and Changing Persistent Conceptual Difficulties in Undergraduate Biology Courses  | 
 Michelle Smith, Assistant Professor of Biology and Ecology and member of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education, University of Maine  | 
 
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 Nov 2012  | 
 Seminar  | 
 UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Interactive Engagement in Large Classes: Methods and Examples from the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
 
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 Oct 2012  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Just how good are student-generated assessment questions?  | 
 Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Teaching and Learning, and Academic Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), UBC  | 
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 Apr 2012  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Feb 2012  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Learning with scientific simulations: Affordances for performance assessment and student learning  | 
 Janice Gobert, Professor of Psychology and Learning Sciences, and of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institut  | 
 
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 Dec 2011  | 
 Workshop  | 
 Effective Peer Instruction Using Clickers  | 
 Cynthia Heiner and Peter Newbury, Physics and Astronomy, UBC  | 
 
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 Oct 2011  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Capturing Multiple Dimensions of Instructional Practice: The Teaching \Dimensions Observation Protocol  | 
 Joe Ferrare, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison  | 
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 Sep 2011  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Two-stage Exam Session  | 
 Brett Gilley, Science Teaching and Learning Fellow, CWSEI  | 
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 Jun 2011  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Learning Processes in Online Graphic Environments: The Added Value of Visualization and Modeling  | 
 Taylor Martin, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin  | 
 
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 Apr 2011  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Jan 2011  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Issues of the Transition to University Mathematics  | 
 David Bressoud, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics, Macalester College  | 
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 Aug 2010  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Learning Science and Technology to Understand Your Domain and Improve Student Learning  | 
 Kenneth Koedinger, Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Psychology & Director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, Carnegie Mellon University  | 
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 Aug 2010  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Statistical Modeling as Part of Science  | 
 Daniel Kaplan, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Macalester College  | 
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 May 2010  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Missed in Plain Sight: Effects of instruction on noticing and transfer  | 
 Dan Schwartz, Professor of Education, Stanford University  | 
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 May 2010  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Using the PER User's Guide and Adopting/Adapting Course Materials  | 
 Sam McKagan, American Association of Physics Teachers and McKagan Enterprises  | 
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 Apr 2010  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Apr 2010  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Learning to Think Mathematically (or like a scientist, or a writer, or...)  | 
 Alan Schoenfeld, Professor of Education and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley  | 
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 Mar 2010  | 
 Seminar  | 
 On Assessing Science Learning in Higher Education  | 
 Richard Shavelson, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology, Stanford University  | 
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 Nov 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Accounting for tutorial teaching assistants' buy-in to reform instruction  | 
 Rachel Scherr, Research Assistant Professor, Physics Education Research Group, University of Maryland  | 
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 Oct 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 A research-based approach to transforming an upper-division electricity and magnetism course  | 
 Steve Pollock, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder  | 
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 Oct 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Understanding Educational Reforms: Impacts of Physics Education Research  | 
 Steve Pollock, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder  | 
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 Oct 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Identifying and Addressing Student Difficulties in an Introductory Statistics Course  | 
 Bruce Dunham and Eugenia Yu, Department of Statistics, UBC  | 
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 Sep 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 How we learn versus how we think we learn: Implications for the design and evaluation of instruction  | 
 Robert Bjork, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UCLA  | 
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 Jul 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Peer Instruction for the First Time: Experiences of a First Time User in Computer Science  | 
 Beth Simon, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego  | 
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 May 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Lecture Tools: A Powerful Alternative to Clickers  | 
 Perry Samson, Professor - Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan  | 
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 Apr 2009  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Feb 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 PeerWise - students sharing and evaluating multiple choice questions  | 
 Paul Denny, The University of Auckland: New Zealand  | 
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 Feb 2009  | 
 Seminar  | 
 A Balance - Effective Levels of Guidance for Student Engagement and Learning  | 
 Wendy Adams, Co-Director of PhET and Director of Research, CU-SEI  | 
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 Oct 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Changing the way undergraduates are taught in a research-oriented biology department  | 
 Bill Wood, University of Colorado: Boulder  | 
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 Oct 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Assessing an Undergraduate Lab Program  | 
 David Caprette, Rice University  | 
 
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 Oct 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: How People Learn: Implications for Teachers and Students  | 
 Carl Wieman, CWSEI  | 
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 Oct 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: When Learning is Truly Celebrated  | 
 Lee Shulman, UBC  | 
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 Oct 2008  | 
 Symposium  | 
 UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Learning Goals: What, Why, How  | 
 Beth Simon, Jared Taylor, and Steve Wolfman , UBC  | 
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 Oct 2008  | 
 Symposium  | 
 UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Bringing Learning Goals to Fruition  | 
 Francis Jones and Brett Gilley , UBC EOAS  | 
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 Oct 2008  | 
 Symposium  | 
 UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: A Glimpse into the Process of Creating Learning Goals  | 
 Simon & Wolfman, UBC CS  | 
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 Oct 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Keeping the feedback loop active: Critical incidents for learning  | 
 Sara Harris and Douw Steyn, Dept of Earth and Ocean Sciences  | 
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 Sep 2008  | 
 Workshop  | 
 Implementing principles of learning (New Science Faculty Workshop)  | 
 Carl Wieman, CWSEI  | 
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 Sep 2008  | 
 Workshop  | 
 How People Learn, the Science of Learning (New Science Faculty Workshop)  | 
 Carl Wieman, CWSEI  | 
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 Aug 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Characteristics of East Asian Learners: What we have learned from international studies  | 
 Esther S.C. Ho (Professor) and Kwong Wai Leung (Centre Manager of HKPISA Centre), Chinese University of Hong Kong  | 
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 Jul 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Studying Expert Teachers  | 
 David C. Berliner, Regents' Professor, Arizona State University  | 
 
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 Jul 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Physics Education (Research) in the UK: notes from a (very small island)  | 
 Simon Bates, Professor of Physics Education, University of Edinburgh, UK  | 
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 Apr 2008  | 
 Annual Event  | 
 2008 CWSEI End-of-Year-Event  | 
 Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Apr 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 The Transfer of Learning  | 
 Dan Schwartz, Professor of Education, Stanford University  | 
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 Apr 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Roles of Assessment in Learning in Statistics and Mathematics  | 
 Helen MacGillvray, Professor, Queensland University of Technology's School of Mathematical Sciences & Director of its Maths Access Centre  | 
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 Mar 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 What All Instructors Should Know About Learning  | 
 Carl Wieman, Director, Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative  | 
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 Jan 2008  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Problem Solving; understanding and evaluating the many components of skills, processes, and beliefs  | 
 Wendy Adams, Director of Research, Science Education Initiative, University of Colorado-Boulder  | 
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 Nov 2007  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Changing how we teach genetics through learning goals, assessments, and interactive learning  | 
 Michelle Smith, Science Teaching Fellow, University of Colorado-Boulder  | 
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 Nov 2007  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Reforming Large Courses at a Research University: A Case Study from Physics at Illinois  | 
 Gary Gladding, Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  | 
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 Oct 2007  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Confessions of a Converted Lecturer  | 
 Eric Mazur, Professor of Physics, Harvard University  | 
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 Jul 2007  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Studying Student Beliefs About Science: their importance and what affects them  | 
 Kathy Perkins, Associate Director, University of Colorado Science Education Initiative  | 
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 May 2007  | 
 Workshop  | 
 Learning Goals (May 3 and 8)  | 
 UBC Physics  | 
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 Apr 2007  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Streamlining a Modern Geoscience Curriculum: A Tale of Young Turks, High Teaching Loads, and Turning Lemons into Lemonade  | 
 Eric Riggs, Co-director, CRESME, Purdue University  | 
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 Apr 2007  | 
 Seminar  | 
 Creating a Highly Interactive Classroom for All Courses  | 
 Mike Dubson, Senior Instructor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder  | 
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 Mar 2007  | 
 Workshop  | 
 Learning Goals (March 22 and 30)  | 
 UBC EOS/CS  |