Weekly Faculty Showcase Spotlight: Sylvia Maxfield
Filed under Technology
Posted by TASC, March 24, 2008
View all posts for March 2008
About the Faculty Showcase: This year’s Showcase is an opportunity to learn about the role technology is playing in teaching, learning, and research across the College. A series of posters will be on display to highlight innovative work being done by over fifteen Simmons College faculty members.
This Week: Sylvia Maxfield
DEPARTMENT: School of Management
POSTER TITLE: Emphasizing Teaching Over Technology
In blending these courses, my steepest learning curve was around pedagogy. Blended teaching and learning doesn’t lend itself to the traditional “lecture, mid-term, and final exam” course structure. Most of the innovations such as increasing the number of low-stakes opportunities for practice and feedback, adding rubrics, making expectations explicit, putting things in writing, and communicating clear deadlines improve student learning considerably. These are also best practices for what the business school accreditation association calls “assurance of learning”.
On April 23rd, from 3:00-5:00 in the Kotzen room, Simmons faculty and staff are invited to attend a Faculty Showcase and reception. As part of the lead-up to the Faculty Showcase we are spending some time each week to spotlight the innovative work that will be shown at this year’s Showcase.
