Active Engagement: Success in the Classroom and Beyond
Date: May 10
Time: 9 am – 3:15 p.m.
Location: River Building atrium and conference rooms
Student engagement, a key to successful undergraduate education, can be achieved through encouraging active learning, which has long been considered a principle of good practice in undergraduate education (Chickering and Gamson, 1987). Central to active learning is the belief that students are not mere receptacles that teachers fill with information, but active participants, collaborators, and co-creators in the learning process. Active learning is founded on the idea that students must actively engage with new content and skills in order to internalize and make sense of it in a meaningful and lasting way.
The question with which faculty, staff and administrators in post-secondary education must grapple is how to create educational experiences that not only promote, but foster active engagement? How do we convey the importance and necessity of rejecting passive models of learning in favour of more active ones? What people, places and practices can be used to actively engage students in the education process? How do we set students up for success both in and beyond the classroom? What roles do students, staff, teachers and administrators play in student engagement?
Carleton University’s Teaching and Learning Council, in collaboration with Teaching and Learning Services, invites proposals for posters, presentations (20 minutes), and workshops (1 hour) that grapple with or offer answers to the questions above. We are particularly interested in proposals that center around the themes of student engagement, experiential learning, active learning spaces, or how active engagement promotes the development of skills for future careers. We also invite proposals from students, staff, faculty and administrators, with a particular interest in proposals that involve collaborations among these groups.
Proposals can be theoretical or practical in nature. They may represent exploratory investigations, practice-based research, and/or practical demonstrations of active learning.