Introduction

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is host to a number of single-day and multi-day conferences related to eLearning and quality Teaching & Learning in general. Many of these experiences are free or require a nominal registration cost.

Faculty Retreat

The Faculty Retreat is a one-day conference historically held at the Illini Union held early in the Spring semester. In addition to pre and post-conference workshops, the event features a number of faculty presenters reporting on their efforts to innovate and transform student learning.

In the video, “Food Science and Human Nutrition Faculty Retreat Grant,” Professor Candace Martinez, from the BADM department of Gies Business, describes her collaboration with Professor Dawn Bohn, from the department of FSHN, in developing an innovative Teaching & Learning project.

The program for the 2019 Retreat is available.

Faculty Summer Institute

FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology (formerly known simply as the “Faculty Summer Institute”) is an annual conference that brings educators and instructional-technology professionals together each May at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Attendees come from across Illinois and as far away as Canada. The conference features keynote presentations, networking, and hands-on training on the use of modern communication and information technologies in education.

The programs from the 2019 event and prior are available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The conference also offers online access to presenter materials such the above presentation from Robert Baird and Ava Wolf (from CITL) regarding Active Learning.