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Please join us to learn about Quality Matters as a faculty peer-reviewed process for quality online course design.

We will celebrate the success of UNC Charlotte faculty who have had courses and a program certified by Quality Matters. We will also recognize the leadership and service of our Quality Matters Associate Faculty Fellows.

Following individuals will be recognized:

Please join your UNC Charlotte colleagues at the Active Learning Academy Spring 2018 Expo to find out how Active Learning is being used on campus to increase student engagement, collaboration, and success.  

What is Active Learning? Active learning involves providing opportunities for students to meaningfully talk and listen, write, read, and reflect on the content, ideas, issues, and concerns of an academic subject (Meyers & Jones, 1993). Active learning is any (teaching) strategy that involves students in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing (Bonwell & Eison, 1991). On higher education campuses today, there are a multitude of technologies and methodologies that can be be used in any classroom, large or small, to engage students in active learning. Join us at the Active Learning Academy Expo to experience and learn about the successes of your colleagues.

At the end of this event, attendees will:

• Have a greater understanding of Active Learning
• ​Be familiar with Active Learning resources to aid their teaching
• Learn new activities and/or methods to include in courses in the future!

Expo Schedule

1:00 - 1:05 pm - Opening Remarks/Honoring the Loss of Camina Davis
1:05 - 3:00 pm - Eight rounds of 10 minutes to visit the booths of our eight Active Learning Academy Teams and engage with their presentations, experiences, and content.

Active Learning Team Facilitators

• Jamie Strickland - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Geography & Earth Sciences
• Mohsen Dorodchi - College of Computing & Informatics, Computer Sciences
• Susan Harden - Cato College of Education, Department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education
• Ashley Bowers - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences
• Celine Latulipe - College of Computing & Informatics, Software and Information Systems
• Justin Cary - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University Writing Program
• Nicole Spoor - J. Murrey Atkins Library, Business Librarian
• ​Tina Katsanos - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Religious Studies