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"This program has helped me realize that learning encompasses the mind, body, and the soul. We do a great job of nurturing and developing our students' minds, but how do we nurture their body and soul?" ~ Faculty participant

Spring 2010

Expeditions in Learning - Tentative Offering

Dates: TBA
Facilitator: TBA
Location:TBA

Overview and Purpose
Expeditions in Learning is a one semester program founded on collaborative and experiential learning. The program is designed to take advantage of campus learning opportunities that are new or foreign to many, and provide "programmatic permission" and supportive colleagues for you to go places you've never gone before as you explore campus, observe diverse classroom settings, and engage ideas in a new way.

Several expeditions (or mini-field trips) throughout the UW Campus are sprinkled throughout the semester supplemented by small group discussions. The discussions are intended to connect your expeditions your teaching, to learn from others about their diverse experiences, to broaden our understandings about each other and to explore faculty, graduate and undergraduate experiences.

CLICK HERE to start the registration process. Please contact Brian Manske (bfmanske@wisc.edu) with further questions.

 

"Delta can help you if you are interested in teaching, or in different ways to look at your research, or even in different ways to look at yourself. Expeditions in Learning fit into my life so well -- it gave me the opportunity to be around people outside of my lab. Expeditions in Learning is a community of people who are trying to come up with more effective ways of being teachers and learning about the university.If someone is interested in teaching, they would gain a lot from this experience because of the additional perspectives from others and have fun at the same time." ~ Post-doc participant, Biomolecular Chemistry


Past Offerings

Download the prior year syllabus: MS Word

Expeditions in Learning: Learning to Lecture (Fall 09)

Expeditions in Learning: First Year Experience (Fall 09)

Expeditions in Learning: Academic Institutions (Summer 09)

Expeditions in Learning at UW-Madison (Fall '04, Spring '05, Fall '05, Spring '06, Fall '07, Spring '08, Fall '08, Spring '09)

Expeditions in Learning about Diversity (Fall '06)
Explore our campus learning environment in new ways with an emphasis on diversity through explorations of classes, facilities, and campus events.  Concurrent with these expeditions, the Delta and Diversity Education Programs will facilitate small group discussions of your discoveries and the possible implications for teaching and learning.

Expeditions in Learning about Social Justice (Spring '07)

Expeditions in Learning for new faculty (Spring '07)

Expeditions in Learning Outreach (Summer '06)

Expeditions in Learning Physics Department (2006-2007)

Expeditions of the Classroom Experience (Fall '05, Fall '06)
Observe teaching and learning in a variety of classrooms on campus. Expeditions will include visits to majors and non-majors classes and a lab. Participants will use their observations to discuss ways to improve their own teaching practice. Some teaching experience is required to participate. (Syllabi will be posted soon.)

Download the syllabus (draft) in MS Word format or
Download the syllabus (draft) in PDF.

To register or get more information please email Brian Manske.

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