[CSEE Talk] Talk announcement - Reinventing the Classroom

[Keara Fliggins]

>>>
>>> Reinventing the Classroom
>>> Friday, March 1, 2013 · Noon - 2 PM
>>> ITE 456
>>> Professor Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
>>> Harvard University
>>>
>>> Talk and lunch: 12:00-1:00. Lunch courtesy of Dr. Warren DeVries, Dean
>>> of the College of Engineering and Information Technology. RSVP at
>>> http://my.umbc.edu/groups/csee/events/16640 to reserve a spot by
>>> Monday, February 25. Email requests from outside UMBC to
>>> mariedj at cs.umbc.edu.
>>>
>>> Discussion: 1:00-2:00. The community is invited to stay after the talk
>>> for an open discussion and conversation with Professor Lewis and your
>>> UMBC colleagues about designing new classroom spaces for active
>>> learning and the "flipped classroom" approach.
>>>
>>>
>>> For decades my lectures kept getting better, my enrollments kept going
>>> up, and the number of warm bodies in the lecture hall kept going down.
>>> So I decided to try something entirely different, a "flipped
>>> classroom." Students watched lectures over the Internet at night in
>>> their rooms, and spent class time solving problems under supervision
>>> in small groups. The subject matter was discrete mathematics, which is
>>> well suited to this pedagogical style, but the class was so successful
>>> that it is being adapted for use in other Harvard courses. I will
>>> report on some of the conceptual and practical problems I encountered,
>>> including the creation of a new teaching space, which had to be cheap
>>> to construct and adaptable in use since the experiment might have 
>>> failed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Harry Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard,
>>> where he has taught since 1974. He is uncertain whether he should be
>>> proud of his role in launching the careers of Bill Gates and Mark
>>> Zuckerberg, both of whom dropped out of Harvard shortly after taking
>>> his course. From 1995-2003 Lewis served as Dean of Harvard College. In
>>> this capacity he oversaw the undergraduate experience, including
>>> residential life, career services, public service, academic and
>>> personal advising, athletic policy, and intercultural and race
>>> relations. He is a long time member of the College’s Admissions
>>> Committee.
>>>
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