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Workshop II: How to Stop Doing All the Work: Facilitating Critical Thinking with Blackboard Tools

Speaker: Dr. Susan D'Aloia, Client Success Manager ASIA Blackboard Inc.

Organizers:

Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research

Description: Workshop II: How to Stop Doing All the Work: Facilitating Critical Thinking with Blackboard Tools (60 minutes or longer)

Goal for Participants: Participants will actively immerse themselves in brain-based learning through various structured thinking skills. In so doing, participants will reimagine their course content using this methodology. By the end of the workshop, participants will have plotted out an activity that embodies structured thinking skills utilizing Blackboard tools.

Participants must bring in specific learning objectives from their courses and have access or first hand knowledge of current course materials.

This workshop will last two hours including LAB TIME for 30 minutes or longer; participants should upload decision making from both workshops.

Biography:

Blackboard has established a new client success team to identify, romote and disseminate the effective adoption of Blackboard products and services. Client Success Managers showcase strategic benefits that relate with cultural and educational change within institutions.

The Client Success Manager for the Asia Pacific region is Dr. Susan D’Aloia. Susan is an interdisciplinary educator and program developer who has worked as a consultant and trainer in the United States, Latin America and Asia. She has worked with public and private schools, non-traditional learning institutionsand multiple colleges and universities. Susan has taught over 1,000 hours of fully online and blended learning instruction as well as serving as a Department Head and an Associate Director. She maintains a passion for digital remediation of content and processes and working with the educators who continue to maintain and innovate learning. In addition to her doctoral degree, Susan earned a graduate degree in fine arts from Sarah Lawrence College.

In her most recent position as Chair of the English Department at Broward College Vietnam, Susan played an instrumental role designing critical thinking curriculum that addresses plagiarism, authenticity, creativity and autonomy in the virtual world and face time.Her essays and scholarship have been published in journals including the Global City Review, New Renaissance Magazine, Internarrative Identity Revisited from Palgrave Macmillan and forthcoming in The Future of English in Asia by Routeledge Press.

Her areas of focus include but are not limited to: synthesis of scholarship, pedagogy and programming, brain-based learning and critical thinking, small and large-scale curriculum innovation, program development and departmental and institutional branding.

Language: English

Date: 10 Sep, 2015 (Thursday)

Time: 2:30pm – 4:15pm
Venue: Rm 712, William M. W. Mong Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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