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USC Teaching Excellence Colloquium

Submitted by: John Warner on Nov 17, 2006 at 4:30 pm Tagged with: Academia, Events Source:

Friday, November 17, 2006
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Close/Hipp Building (Moore School of Business) Room 203

"The Net Generation, Learning Styles and Technology-Enhanced Education: Opportunities and Challenges"

Presenter: Dr. Charles Dziuban, University of Central Florida
Opening Remarks by President Andrew Sorensen and Provost Mark Becker

This presentation focuses on the characteristics of net generation learners and their interaction with reactive behavior patterns in the distributed learning environment. Results focus on success and withdrawal across disciplines, students' satisfaction with their learning experiences, and differing reactions to online learning by generational cohorts and learning preference.

About the Presenter
Charles Dziuban is Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where has been a faculty member since 1970 teaching research design and statistics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Since 1996, he has directed the impact evaluation of UCF's distributed learning initiative examining student and faculty outcomes as well as gauging the impact of online courses on the university. Chuck has published in numerous journals including Multivariate Behavioral Research, The Psychological Bulletin, Educational and Psychological Measurement, the American Education Research Journal, the Phi Delta Kappan, the Internet in Higher Education, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, and the Sloan-C View. His methods for determining psychometric adequacy have been featured in both the SPSS and the SAS packages. He has received funding from several government and industrial agencies including the Ford Foundation, Centers for Disease Control, and the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2000, Chuck was named UCF's first ever Pegasus Professor for extraordinary research, teaching, and service and in 2005 received the honor of Professor Emeritus. In 2005 Chuck received the Sloan Consortium award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online learning by an Individual. In 2006 he was appointed to the National Information Communication Technology Council to provide leadership in creating national standards for information literacy.

View the Broadcast

This presentation will be broadcast live on Gamecock cable channel 108 and on the SCETV circuit 308. It will also be accessible videostreamed at the Center for Teaching Excellence website. www.sc.edu/cte

Sponsored By:

Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Office of the Provost
Faculty Committee on Instructional Development

For more information, please contact Dr. Doris Stephens at cte@gwm.sc.edu or (803) 777-8322.

Submitted by: Dr. Doris Stephens, Program Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, USC