Date: January 7
Time: 2:15 to 3:15 p.m.
Location: Room 410, Harker ISE Lab
Description: This session will present a case study for applying PBL principles to classroom activities that develop students’ technical skills. By moving beyond direct instruction, this approach sets the context for the remainder of the course by having students form teams, work with real course data, process ambiguous instructions, and make judgements regarding the best course of action.
Alenka Hlousek-Radojcic
Alenka Hlousek-Radojcic, Biological Sciences
Alenka Hlousek-Radojcic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Biology degree from the Michigan State University. Known to her students as Prof. Alenka, she is a recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences and was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Tribhuvan University in Nepal. Alenka is leading the teaching team that consists of preceptors, faculty, teaching assistants, and laboratory support personnel for integrated Introductory Biology and General Chemistry course sequence serving about five hundred students, mostly freshmen, per semester. The team is developing and implementing interdisciplinary, inquiry based and collaborative curriculum that includes peer mentoring and team work. Her scholarly activities are focusing on studying development of student critical thinking and graduate assistant teaching skills.
Sandy McVey
Sandy McVey, Academic Technology Services
Sandy McVey, Educational Technology Consultant II, collaborates with instructors to develop customized teaching activities that leverage technology. Based at Faculty Commons, Sandy conducts individual appointments and facilitates group sessions focused on student engagement including in-class polling options. Sandy’s Microsoft Office certifications in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word are highly sought after by faculty who want to ramp up their own skills. She is invited to lead technical sessions in the classroom when students are challenged to apply more advanced features of these business standard products in preparation for the real-world opportunities. Vested with a Google IQ, she’s an ideal partner to help develop activities utlitizing the Google Apps at UD.