5th Annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Virtual Format
You are invited to participate virtually in the fifth annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium, sponsored by the University of Southern Indiana. The Symposium welcomes works focusing on improving student learning, academic success, and curriculum in higher education. It provides opportunities to present and hear about teaching and learning efforts framed as teaching practice or the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) works.
Why Participate?
The Symposium will provide opportunities to share teaching efforts that support student learning and success while interacting with participants across disciplines in oral and poster/demonstration presentations and a keynote presentation. The Symposium is an example of CETL’s focus on Making Teaching and Learning Visible initiative.
Participants are welcomed to move between concurrent sessions based on their interests and participate as their schedules permit. Presentation formats include:
Key Dates
Call for Proposals (announced by October 30)
Register
We request registration by January 29. Pre-registered participants will receive an entry for the door prizes. Poster session participants will receive an additional entry.
2021 Symposium Committee
2021 Symposium Sponsors
The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) is proud to offer the fourth Celebration of Teaching & Learning Symposium. We are grateful for the support provided by our partners:
About the Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposia
The Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) at the University of Southern Indiana is proud to sponsor this annual symposium for the community. The goal of the Symposia is to provide participants opportunities to share their teaching efforts to support student learning, engage in conversations to enhance one's teaching practice, and build community. The Symposia is part of CETL’s Making Teaching and Learning Visible initiative.
Abstract Collection in SOAR: Presentation abstracts are available through USI's Scholarly Open Access Repository (SOAR).
2020 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
February 5, 2020, University of Southern Indiana
Approximately 90 individuals attended the fourth annual Symposium, with participants from five institutions in the region. The program included 23 oral and poster presentations, a plenary luncheon presentation "In the Company of Others: Learning Analytics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" by Dr. Jennifer Meta Robinson (Indiana University Bloomington).
2019 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
February 6, 2019, University of Southern Indiana
More than 100 individuals attended the third Symposium, with participants from nine institutions in the region. The program included 30 oral and poster presentations, a plenary luncheon presentation "Good Teachers, Scholarly Teachers, and Scholars of Teaching and Learning" by Dr. Jennifer Friberg (Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Illinois State University).
2018 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
January 25, 2018, University of Southern Indiana
More than 90 individuals attended the second Symposium, with participants from five institutions in the region. The program included 26 oral and poster presentations, a plenary luncheon presentation "Active Learning in the 21st Century" by Dr. J. Ana Donaldson, and a reception.
2017 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
January 26, 2017, University of Southern Indiana
2017 Symposium Program
The program included 35 oral and poster presentations, an invited panel of teaching award recipients, and a reception. We were thrilled that over 110 participants attended this inaugural event.