The Teaching and Learning Conference occurs each spring and is the premier teaching and learning event at DePaul. Every year, dozens of faculty and staff share best practices in teaching and learning with hundreds of their peers.
Dr. Bettina Love will begin by delivering her talk, "We Gon’ Be Alright, But That Ain’t Alright: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom." Faculty presenters will share best practices and research related to teaching and learning.
The focus this year is on the potential impact of the pandemic and how we view others and build social connections, the way we view ourselves and our roles as educators, and the future of higher education at large.
The 25th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference focused on the intersection of student mental health and academic success.
The theme for 2018 challenges us to reflect on the range of our students' diversity and how we account for it in our teaching practices .
The theme of 2018's conference invited us to reflect on our sense of personal meaning and connection to social purpose as educators.
How can we document student learning that is a result of our teaching practices?
The 2016 conference invited participants to examine High-Impact Practices (HIPs) that have significant, positive effects on student retention and learning.
The theme of 2015's conference invited participants
to consider what really works in the classroom. The 2014 Teaching & Learning Conference
invited DePaul faculty and staff to consider the value and possibilities
of “real-time” interaction in the classroom and online. The theme of 2013's conference focused on how
knowing ourselves and our students can help us reach a wider range of
learners and expand upon our existing approaches to teaching. The 2012 conference asked presenters to explore how game design can inform effective teaching practices. In his keynote presentation, Professor James Paul Gee
argued that good video games incorporate good principles of both
teaching and learning. The theme of this conference focused on teaching as an
act of body and brain. We encouraged presenters and attendees to
consider the ways in which an awareness of the body and the physical
space of the classroom can influence teaching and learning. The theme of 2010's conference focused on
challenging ourselves and challenging our students by setting high
standards and using innovative teaching practices. The theme of 2009's conference focused on ways that personalism plays out in various teaching practices at DePaul.