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Level Up: Designing a Game-Based Learning Environment
Updated by Janaina on June 13, 10:15 am
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
12:00-2:00 pm
Online through Blackboard Collaborate
To register visit: https://www.cirtl.net/p/register-for-level-up-designing-a-game-based-learning-environment
In this online workshop, we will look at the various elements of game design that can help engage and motivate students such as collaboration, autonomy, purpose, competition, feedback, and scaffolding. As a group, we will explore activities that are based around familiar game formats, design frameworks around existing games repurposed to address specific learning objectives, and examine how to embed game structures within a course's design. Registration is open through June 19. Cap of 50 students (please note that this is a lower cap than originally advertised).
This workshop is offered by the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL).
Creating an Individual Development Plan
Updated by Janaina on June 13, 10:20 am
Thursday, July 13, 2017
10:00-11:30 am
159 Education Building
Register online HERE.
Creating an IDP encourages you to think about what you need to do next — and over the next few years — so that you achieve your goals. We will discuss how to define achievable goals, identify resources, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining your plans. Participants will begin to create a personalized plan that takes into account career interests and addresses the development of knowledge and skills.
This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development and Delta Program.
Course registration is now open!
Updated by Janaina on April 6, 10:00 am
The Delta Program will be offering the following courses and seminars in the fall. For more information and to register click on the title of the course you are interested in.
Fall 2017
» Teaching in Science and Engineering: The College Classroom 
» Effective Teaching in an Internationally Diverse Classroom
» Internship Seminar
» Research Mentor Training Seminar 
» Effective Teaching with Technology
» Improv to Improve Science Communication and Teaching 
» Communicating Science with Everyone
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UW-Madison's National Initiative to Increase STEM Graduates Doubles in Members
Updated by Janaina on March 4, 4:30 pm
MADISON, WIS. – Forty-six research universities that produce one-third of U.S. doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) now are members of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), established within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. The mission of CIRTL is to improve the teaching skills and increase the diversity of future STEM university faculty members.