This annual symposium, begun in 2014 as part of the Hrabowski Innovation Fund initiative, brings together UMBC faculty and staff to present and discuss pedagogical innovations on campus and to plan future directions in teaching and learning.
Eighth Annual Symposium – Friday, September 27, 2024
The eighth annual Symposium featured Breakfast with the Deans, a poster and teaching tool demonstration session, themed interactive exploration spaces, lunch, and a keynote, Effective, Engaging Teaching in a Wired World: Using the Science of Memory to Promote Deep Learning, by Dr. Michelle Miller. Please see this myUMBC post to download the agenda and detailed program and visit our past presentations page to view the keynote presentation.
Also available are digital copies of the posters/demos presented and resources from the curriculum mapping and inclusive teaching practices rooms. (A UMBC login is required to view the Box folders. Use the +/- buttons in the menu at the bottom to zoom.)
Seventh Annual Symposium – Friday, April 21, 2023
On April 21, 2023, after a hiatus due to constraints from the COVID-19 pandemic, the campus came together to celebrate the return from remote instruction and honor Provost Rous in our seventh annual Symposium. It featured lunch, a keynote, Beyond Inclusion – Teaching for Civic Engagement and Social Participation, by Dr. Bryan Dewsbury, and a poster session where UMBC faculty and staff shared their teaching projects.
Please see this myUMBC Post to download the agenda and detailed program and visit our past presentations page to view the keynote presentation. This Box folder contains digital copies of the posters presented (A UMBC login is required. Use the +/- buttons in the menu at the bottom to zoom.) We have heard many, many positive comments from attendees about Dr. Dewsbury’s powerful keynote and the wonderful posters. You won’t want to miss them!
Sixth Annual Symposium – Friday, September 20, 2019
The sixth annual Symposium featured breakfast and lunch, two groups of concurrent sessions, poster presentations, and a keynote, Making Relationship-Rich Experiences the Heart of Higher Education, by Dr. Peter Felten. Please see this myUMBC Post to download the agenda and detailed program and visit our past presentations page to view the keynote presentation.
Fifth Annual Symposium – Friday, March 1, 2019
The fifth annual Symposium was rescheduled after a campus water outage on the original date of Friday, October 12, 2018. It went on, despite a delayed campus opening on March 1, 2019. The abbreviated Symposium featured lunch, poster presentations, and a keynote, Integrative Learning in a Dis-integrative Era, by Dr. Randy Bass. Please see this myUMBC Post to download the agenda and detailed program.
Fourth Annual Symposium – Friday, September 22, 2017
The fourth annual Symposium featured breakfast and lunch, two groups of concurrent sessions, poster presentations, and a keynote, Get Students to Focus on Learning Instead of Grades: Metacognition is the Key!, by Dr. Saundra Y. McGuire. Please see this myUMBC Post to download the agenda and detailed program and visit our past presentations page to view the keynote presentation.
Third Annual Symposium – Friday, September 30, 2016
The third annual Symposium featured breakfast and lunch, two groups of concurrent panel presentations, a Speed Geeking session, poster presentations, and a keynote, What Have We Learned about Learning in the Last 50 Years – and How Might We Use that Knowledge?, by Dr. Thomas A. Angelo. Please see this myUMBC Post to download the program.
Second Annual Symposium – Friday, September 25, 2015
The second annual Symposium featured breakfast and lunch, two groups of concurrent panel presentations and workshops, a Speed Geeking session, poster presentations, and remarks by President Freeman Hrabowski. Videos from the panel presentations on Applied Learning Experiences and Creating Direct Measures of Student Learning are on UMBC’s YouTube site.
First Annual Symposium – Friday, September 12, 2014
The inaugural Symposium was rescheduled after inclement weather on the original date of January 22, 2014. It featured breakfast and lunch, morning and afternoon panel presentations, morning and afternoon poster presentations, and a round table discussion on strategies to support and extend pedagogical innovation.