Friday, November 13, 10:00 am–11:30 am
Getting Beyond Covering Content: A Key to Student Motivation and Success
Frangipani Room, IMU

Instructors and course designers often face a dilemma based on two realities' most students are:
1. Far more motivated (and successful) when they see how course content applies to their "real world."
2. Bored by lectures but, unable to apply course content until they know what the content is.

This workshop will begin with a demonstration of a Readiness Assurance Process that is an effective approach for dealing with this dilemma by shifting the vast majority of class time from content coverage to content applications without reducing the number of concepts that are covered. Following the demonstration, we will explore additional issues and concerns about using learning groups including:

  • Building groups into self-managed learning teams with norms that promote high levels of individual preparation, content engagement and class attendance.
  • Coping with the mechanics (e.g. physical layout, materials and exams, classroom procedures, grading, etc.).

    Larry K. Michaelsen is the David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, Professor of Management at Central Missouri State University, a Carnegie Scholar, a Fulbright Senior Scholar and former Editor of the Journal of Management Education. He is active in faculty and staff development activities and has conducted workshops on teaching effectively with small groups in a wide variety of university and classroom settings.

    Dr. Michaelsen has also received numerous college, university and national awards for his outstanding teaching and for his pioneering work in two areas. One is the development of Team-Based Learning, a comprehensive small-group based instructional process that is now being used in over 100 academic disciplines and on over 200 campuses in the US and in eight foreign countries.