Event Title: The Essence of Good Teaching: Face-to-Face and Online
Date: March 16, 2006
Time:
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (brown bag lunch)
Location:
Student Center East, Room 605
750 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Symposium Overview
The Essence of Good Teaching: Face-to-Face and Online Presented by:
Professor John Regalbuto
As varied an activity as teaching can be, didactic, Socratic, clinical and classroom, face-to-face or online, can an "essence of good teaching" actually be distilled? This was an important question facing a 1998-1999 University of Illinois faculty seminar convened by then Vice President of Academic Affairs, Sylvia Manning, to study the pedagogy of online teaching and learning.
Professor Regalbuto will review the "timeless" findings of this faculty seminar and will apply them to current initiatives in blended learning and the U of I Global Campus.
Best practices in e-learning are emerging. As in face-to-face education, each virtual classroom faces unique challenges. This presentation explores practical lessons learned in the delivery of online education from the perspective of a former student who is currently a faculty member at UIC.
About the Presenters
John R. Regalbuto is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. John received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1981, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 1983 and 1986. John's teaching has been recognized at the highest levels at UIC (1997 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award, currently Chair of the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning), and in 1998-1999 he instigated a widely acclaimed University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield) study on the pedagogy of online teaching and learning.
Rosemary Walker, DDS, MBA, M.S. is a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Associate Program Director of the graduate-level Health Informatics program in the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences, UIC. She began taking online classes in 1999 while working on her M.S. in Health Informatics. After receiving this degree in 2001, she became a BHIS faculty member, teaching both online and face-to-face courses. In 2003, she received the Illinois Online Network's Master Online Teacher Certificate. Dr. Walker played a part in the recent restructuring of the Health Informatics curriculum that is now transitioning to a fully online program.
Contact For further details regarding this event, please contact Emilie Wagner at External Education at (312) 355-0423 or by e-mail at ebwagner@uic.edu.
Related Information
Faculty who would like curriculum support in developing an online or blended course can contact Karin Riggs in External Education. Using a team approach, External Education will partner with UIC's Instructional Technology Lab to identify the best solutions for developing a new online course or taking an existing course and developing an online section.
