Events

Stylized calendarThe CWSEI hosted open houses, seminars, and workshops between 2007-2017, as summarized below.

If you are specifically interested in the End-of-Year (EOY) event, this page links to details up to 2016 (2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016) while the Skylight Open House page covers 2017 onward.

 

Date

Event Type

Title

Presenter(s)/Affiliation

Files

Apr 2017

Annual Event

2017 Annual Science Education Open House

Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

details of events 2017-present

Apr 2016

Annual Event

2016 Science Education Open House

Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

details of event

Apr 2015

Annual Event

2015 Science Education Open House

Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

details of event

Apr 2014

Annual Event

2014 End-of-Year Event and Open House

Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative and Skylight

details of event

Jan 2014

Seminar

Identifying and addressing student difficulties with proportional reasoning

Andrew Boudreaux, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Western Washington University

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Apr 2013

Annual Event

2013 CWSEI End-of-Year Event

Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

details of event

Mar 2013

Seminar

Identifying and Changing Persistent Conceptual Difficulties in Undergraduate Biology Courses

Michelle Smith, Assistant Professor of Biology and Ecology and member of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education, University of Maine

 

Nov 2012

Seminar

UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Interactive Engagement in Large Classes: Methods and Examples from the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

 

Oct 2012

Seminar

Just how good are student-generated assessment questions?

Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Teaching and Learning, and Academic Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), UBC

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Apr 2012

Annual Event

2012 CWSEI End-of-Year Event

Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

details of event

Feb 2012

Seminar

Learning with scientific simulations: Affordances for performance assessment and student learning

Janice Gobert, Professor of Psychology and Learning Sciences, and of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institut

 

Dec 2011

Workshop

Effective Peer Instruction Using Clickers

Cynthia Heiner and Peter Newbury, Physics and Astronomy, UBC

 

Oct 2011

Seminar

Capturing Multiple Dimensions of Instructional Practice: The Teaching \Dimensions Observation Protocol

Joe Ferrare, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Sep 2011

Seminar

Two-stage Exam Session

Brett Gilley, Science Teaching and Learning Fellow, CWSEI

view slides

view video

Jun 2011

Seminar

Learning Processes in Online Graphic Environments: The Added Value of Visualization and Modeling

Taylor Martin, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

 

Apr 2011

Annual Event

2011 CWSEI End-of-Year Event

Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

details of event

Jan 2011

Seminar

Issues of the Transition to University Mathematics

David Bressoud, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics, Macalester College

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Aug 2010

Seminar

Learning Science and Technology to Understand Your Domain and Improve Student Learning

Kenneth Koedinger, Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Psychology & Director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, Carnegie Mellon University

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Aug 2010

Seminar

Statistical Modeling as Part of Science

Daniel Kaplan, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Macalester College

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May 2010

Seminar

Missed in Plain Sight: Effects of instruction on noticing and transfer

Dan Schwartz, Professor of Education, Stanford University

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May 2010

Seminar

Using the PER User's Guide and Adopting/Adapting Course Materials

Sam McKagan, American Association of Physics Teachers and McKagan Enterprises

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Apr 2010

Annual Event

2010 CWSEI End-of-Year Event

Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

details of event

Apr 2010

Seminar

Learning to Think Mathematically (or like a scientist, or a writer, or...)

Alan Schoenfeld, Professor of Education and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

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Mar 2010

Seminar

On Assessing Science Learning in Higher Education

Richard Shavelson, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

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Nov 2009

Seminar

Accounting for tutorial teaching assistants' buy-in to reform instruction

Rachel Scherr, Research Assistant Professor, Physics Education Research Group, University of Maryland

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Oct 2009

Seminar

A research-based approach to transforming an upper-division electricity and magnetism course

Steve Pollock, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Oct 2009

Seminar

Understanding Educational Reforms: Impacts of Physics Education Research

Steve Pollock, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Oct 2009

Seminar

UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Identifying and Addressing Student Difficulties in an Introductory Statistics Course

Bruce Dunham and Eugenia Yu, Department of Statistics, UBC

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Sep 2009

Seminar

How we learn versus how we think we learn: Implications for the design and evaluation of instruction

Robert Bjork, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UCLA

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Jul 2009

Seminar

Peer Instruction for the First Time: Experiences of a First Time User in Computer Science

Beth Simon, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego

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May 2009

Seminar

Lecture Tools: A Powerful Alternative to Clickers

Perry Samson, Professor - Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan

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Apr 2009

Annual Event

2009 CWSEI End-of-Year Event

Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

details of event

Feb 2009

Seminar

PeerWise - students sharing and evaluating multiple choice questions

Paul Denny, The University of Auckland: New Zealand

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Feb 2009

Seminar

A Balance - Effective Levels of Guidance for Student Engagement and Learning

Wendy Adams, Co-Director of PhET and Director of Research, CU-SEI

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Oct 2008

Seminar

Changing the way undergraduates are taught in a research-oriented biology department

Bill Wood, University of Colorado: Boulder

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Oct 2008

Seminar

Assessing an Undergraduate Lab Program

David Caprette, Rice University

 

Oct 2008

Seminar

UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: How People Learn: Implications for Teachers and Students

Carl Wieman, CWSEI

view slides; view video

Oct 2008

Seminar

UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: When Learning is Truly Celebrated

Lee Shulman, UBC

view abstract
view video

Oct 2008

Symposium

UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Learning Goals: What, Why, How

Beth Simon, Jared Taylor, and Steve Wolfman , UBC

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Oct 2008

Symposium

UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Bringing Learning Goals to Fruition

Francis Jones and Brett Gilley , UBC EOAS

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Oct 2008

Symposium

UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: A Glimpse into the Process of Creating Learning Goals

Simon & Wolfman, UBC CS

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Oct 2008

Seminar

UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: Keeping the feedback loop active: Critical incidents for learning

Sara Harris and Douw Steyn, Dept of Earth and Ocean Sciences

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Sep 2008

Workshop

Implementing principles of learning (New Science Faculty Workshop)

Carl Wieman, CWSEI

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Sep 2008

Workshop

How People Learn, the Science of Learning (New Science Faculty Workshop)

Carl Wieman, CWSEI

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Aug 2008

Seminar

Characteristics of East Asian Learners: What we have learned from international studies

Esther S.C. Ho (Professor) and Kwong Wai Leung (Centre Manager of HKPISA Centre), Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Jul 2008

Seminar

Studying Expert Teachers

David C. Berliner, Regents' Professor, Arizona State University

 

Jul 2008

Seminar

Physics Education (Research) in the UK: notes from a (very small island)

Simon Bates, Professor of Physics Education, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Apr 2008

Annual Event

2008 CWSEI End-of-Year-Event

Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

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Apr 2008

Seminar

The Transfer of Learning

Dan Schwartz, Professor of Education, Stanford University

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Apr 2008

Seminar

Roles of Assessment in Learning in Statistics and Mathematics

Helen MacGillvray, Professor, Queensland University of Technology's School of Mathematical Sciences & Director of its Maths Access Centre

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Mar 2008

Seminar

What All Instructors Should Know About Learning

Carl Wieman, Director, Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

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Jan 2008

Seminar

Problem Solving; understanding and evaluating the many components of skills, processes, and beliefs

Wendy Adams, Director of Research, Science Education Initiative, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Nov 2007

Seminar

Changing how we teach genetics through learning goals, assessments, and interactive learning

Michelle Smith, Science Teaching Fellow, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Nov 2007

Seminar

Reforming Large Courses at a Research University: A Case Study from Physics at Illinois

Gary Gladding, Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Oct 2007

Seminar

Confessions of a Converted Lecturer

Eric Mazur, Professor of Physics, Harvard University

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Jul 2007

Seminar

Studying Student Beliefs About Science: their importance and what affects them

Kathy Perkins, Associate Director, University of Colorado Science Education Initiative

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May 2007

Workshop

Learning Goals (May 3 and 8)

UBC Physics

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Apr 2007

Seminar

Streamlining a Modern Geoscience Curriculum: A Tale of Young Turks, High Teaching Loads, and Turning Lemons into Lemonade

Eric Riggs, Co-director, CRESME, Purdue University

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Apr 2007

Seminar

Creating a Highly Interactive Classroom for All Courses

Mike Dubson, Senior Instructor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Mar 2007

Workshop

Learning Goals (March 22 and 30)

UBC EOS/CS

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