Delta Presentations Featured on the UW-Madison Teaching and Learning Encore Performances Website

The Delta Instructional Materials Development (IMD) Course and Delta Brownbag session (“Are Clickers Worth It?”) are currently showcased on the UW-Madison Teaching and Learning Encore Performances website.  The Encore Performances feature UW faculty, staff, and students presenting some of the most outstanding teaching and learning presentations and workshops that have been offered across campus.  The videos can be accessed at http://www.provost.wisc.edu/tle/encore.html. 

The “Explore Instructional Materials Development Course” video provides a detailed overview of the IMD course.  In the multi-part video, Kirsten Johnson (School of Education) introduces the IMD course; Robert Jeanne (Entomology) details the course content and structure; Lillian Tong (Center for Biology Education) discusses the rationale behind the course format; and graduate students Sarah Titus and Eric Horsman (Geology and Geophysics) discuss their experience developing instructional materials to improve students’ spatial visualization skills.  The main presentation is followed by a question and answer period.

"Are Clickers Worth It?” is a video of a Delta Brownbag session about how personal response systems, such as hand-held remotes (clickers) or simple index cards, can be effective tools for connecting students with course material and increasing student participation in class.  Professor Gary Roberts (Bacteriology) discusses his use of index cards to get students engaged in course material, and Prof. Tom Sharkey (Institute for Cross College Biology) shares his experience using a slightly more high-tech method, hand-held clickers. 

To learn more about the Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison visit http://www.delta.wisc.edu/.

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