2012 CETL-Sponsored Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Barkley

Terms of Engagement: Understanding and Promoting Student Engagement on Today's College Campus

On Thursday, August 30, 2012, Dr. Elizabeth Barkley, author of Student Engagement Techniques, will speak to the UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff. Concern over student engagement has become central to conversations regarding quality in higher education, but what does 'student engagement' mean? And once we know, how do we achieve it? This interactive session will start with identifying the challenges participants face engaging students in their own teaching. Then, using a dynamic model for understanding what 'student engagement' means, we will draw from Student Engagement Techniques (Barkley, 2010) as well as participant experience to strategize techniques for promoting it in our varied teaching and learning contexts.