The 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 |
Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative |
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Apr 2016 |
Annual Event |
Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative |
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Apr 2015 |
Annual Event |
Skylight and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative |
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Apr 2014 |
Annual Event |
Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative and Skylight |
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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 |
Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative |
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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 |
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Dec 2011 |
Workshop |
Effective Peer Instruction Using Clickers |
Cynthia Heiner and Peter Newbury, Physics and Astronomy, UBC |
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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 |
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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 |
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Apr 2011 |
Annual Event |
Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative |
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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 |
Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative |
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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 |
Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative |
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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 |
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Oct 2008 |
Seminar |
UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: How People Learn: Implications for Teachers and Students |
Carl Wieman, CWSEI |
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Oct 2008 |
Seminar |
UBC Celebrate Learning Week Session: When Learning is Truly Celebrated |
Lee Shulman, UBC |
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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 |
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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 |