Junior Faculty Seminar Series on Teaching & Learning
Come join this learning community by participating in this specially designed seminar series for junior faculty, though all are welcomed to participate. We'll share strategies and best practices for effective and efficient teaching. There will be great conversations, handouts, and lunch! Since each session builds on each other, we hope you will be able to attend all the meetings.
Session 5: “Art of the Lecture Series” – Leveraging Multimedia Instruction
People learn more deeply from words and graphics than from words alone. This assertion can be called the multimedia principle, and it forms the basis for using multimedia instruction—that is, instruction containing words (such as spoken text, printed text, or PowerPoint slides) and graphics (such as illustrations, charts, photos, animation, or video) that is intended to foster learning (Mayer, 2009).
But can there be too much of a “good thing”? Was there cognitive overload? Were there conflicting messages? Why did the students miss the main points in the video? In this session, we will be discussing best research-based practices for the design and organization of multimedia instruction
This workshop counts towards the Graduate Teacher Certificate, the Teacher Scholar Certificate or the Certificate in Foundations of Teaching.
Please mark these dates on your calendar
Wed, Feb. 12, 2020 Session 1: The Teaching Philosophy Statement for Promotion & Tenure
Wed, Feb. 19, 2020 Session 2: Effective Team Projects and Student Teams: What, How and Why
Wed, Feb. 26, 2020 Session 3: "Art of the Lecture Series" - Engaging Students through Active Learning *
Wed, Mar 4, 2020 Session 4: Cheating: An Inappropriate Student Response to an Ineffective Learning Environment
Th, Mar 5, 2020 Campus Annual Faculty Retreat: “Harnessing the Science of Emotion to Spark Learning” (Location: Illini Union Rooms A, B, C)
Wed, Mar 11, 2020 Session 5: "Art of the Lecture Series" - Leveraging Multimedia Instruction *
* Each semester, we will identify special topics or issues that are especially relevant in transforming traditional lectures to a more dynamic lecture method of teaching.
