IPLA 2011

2011 Conference Schedule

Pedagogy Experts Stars of IPLA Conference  

Carnegie Senior Scholar Anthony (Tony) Ciccone directs the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL).  He is also professor of French and director of the Center for Instructional and Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Ruth Levine  is the Clarence Ross Miller Professor of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine and Inaugural Director of the Academy of Master Teachers at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.  She is an active teacher and consultant in team based learning since 2002, currently serving as the president of the Team Based Learning Collaborative, and she has co-edited the book Team Based Learning in Health Professions Education (Stylus Press, 2008).
Jill L. Lane is the Dean of Assessment and Instructional Development at Clayton State University and a former senior research associate at Penn State's Schreyer Institute.  She has published on IGL and other pedagogies of engagement as well as the development of assessment tools for measuring student learning in these pedagogies.
Tim Riordan is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Alverno College. He has published extensively on the scholarship of teaching and learning and on curriculum design.  He is also the editor of Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning (Stylus 2004). 
Patti Clayton, Senior Scholar at Center for Service Learning at IUPUI, is perhaps the leading scholar/practitioner with community-engagement/service learning. She has worked for over 10 years with faculty, colleges, and universities to extend capacity for service learning courses and programs.
Sheila T. Cavanagh is Professor of English and Emory College Distinguished Teaching Scholar for 2010-11.  She received her PhD from Brown University, recently completed a M.S. in College Teaching from the University of New Hampshire, and served as the Masse-Martin/NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor from 2002-2006.
Jim Brown, Oxford's Director of Academic Technologies leads an  invaluable session on the exploration of the interfaces between powerful new technologies and our pedagogies.