|
U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H |
|
|
|
|
|
Volume VIII, Number 1 |
September 2002 |
|
U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H |
|
|
|
|
|
Volume VIII, Number 1 |
September 2002 |
|
Summer Instructional Development Institute 2002 At one of the well-attended
workshops offered during the 2002 Summer Instructional Development Institute
for Faculty (SIDI), | |||||||||||||
|
A newsletter devoted to the support of teaching and learning at the University of Pittsburgh |
||||||||||||||
| Center
for Instructional Development & Distance Education |
||||||||||||||
Carol
Baker, director of the Office of Measurement & Evaluation of Teaching,
elaborates on ways to design effective classroom tests. At another of
these successful workshops, Peter Simonson, Communication, shares strategies
to engage students in larger classes. Other presenters in the workshop
Teaching Larger Classes included Chandralekha Singh, Physics and Astronomy;
Lu-in Wang, Law; David DeJong, Economics; Joe Grabowski, 
Chemistry;
Georgine Materniak, Learning Skills Center; Beverly Michael, Mathematics;
and Catherine Palmer, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
In addition to the estimated 125 faculty who attended workshops, another
30 participated in individual consultations with instructional designers
from the Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education
(CIDDE) offered as part of SIDI. (