i teach 2012

This session will dispel some of the most common myths about a cheating culture on campus and about the university's process for responding to allegations of academic misconduct. Tamara will present approximately five years worth of data related to cases of academic misconduct at Washington University, and she will discuss the trends that these data reveal. In addition, Tamara will explain how the university responds to accusations of cheating--starting with the initiation of a complaint and the initial adjudication process for each school, through the formal adjudication of the most serious cases before the University Judicial Board.

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Increasing numbers of faculty are engaged in developing and refining community-based learning projects in their courses. This session will begin with a presentation by Jennifer on some of the major issues to consider when designing and integrating community-based learning into a course. Then, Amanda and Sonia will briefly describe examples from their own courses. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how they might incorporate such projects into their own courses, and to think about everything from defining learning objectives to logistical issues such as connecting students with people and resources in the St. Louis community. To read about the project completed by students in Sonia Lee's course, click here.

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This session will highlight digital and computational tools (some well-known and some less well-known), offering practical examples of how these tools can help students develop analytical skills. The examples will be taken from a recent graduate seminar on literary sociology, but the approaches are easily adaptable to the undergraduate classroom and to multiple disciplines. Topics and techniques to be covered include word clouds, Google’s N-Gram viewer, mind-mapping, network analysis, and probabilistic topic modeling.

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Collaborative learning is often cited as a key feature – even a cardinal virtue – of liberal education. Heidi and Dave will introduce an ongoing experiment with collaborative, multimedia projects in a multidisciplinary course. Heidi and Dave will describe some of the ways that collaborative projects can enhance multidisciplinary learning and foster awareness of interpretative skills and methodologies, as well as a sense of community. In addition, participants will discuss the ingredients, and benefits, of successful undergraduate collaborative projects.

Session materials: Copyright 2012 Washington University, except where otherwise noted. Please do not use, reproduce, or adapt in any way without permission of the authors (session presenters).