RIT's annual teaching and learning conference featuring tremendous keynote speakers, workshops, and much more! It provides a day and a half of opportunities to learn, exchange ideas, and experience the latest in high impact teaching and academic technologies, as well as network with other colleagues.
We are again inviting RIT faculty and staff, as well as faculty and staff from other Western New York colleges and universities to both present and attend.
This year's theme is Innovative Course Design. Like this conference, course (re)design provides us with a rare opportunity to reflect upon and rethink our teaching strategies and, at the same time, explore new and innovative teaching strategies.
Features of this year's conference include: Wednesday, May 30
- An opening session with Howard Rheingold, the renowned Internet pioneer, cultural critic, and educator. He'll be talking about social media literacy, the subject of his new book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (MIT Press, 2012)
- Concurrent morning sessions
- Afternoon plenary session with Howard Rheingold, who will show us how to foster social media literacies in our courses
- Concurrent afternoon sessions
- RIT Faculty Showcase exhibition
- An end-of-day reception
Thursday, May 31 (morning only)
- Morning plenary session with Doctors Mya Poe, Wendy Newstetter, and Robbie Melton; each will demonstrate two exemplary courses from their respective institutions (Penn State, Georgia Tech, and the University of Tennessee system)
- In-depth, two-hour concurrent workshops by the three plenary speakers
