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 To help our higher education customers improve instruction using student response technology, Turning Technologies has created the Distinguished Educator program - a learning community of outstanding educators.
Turning Technologies Distinguished Educator Program promotes academic excellence and builds relationships between educational thought leaders. Educators invited to participate are passionate advocates of the educational benefits of student response technology and provide expert assistance and best practices to peers typically through presentations at schools and conferences.
As a complimentary service to selected higher education institutions, Turning Technologies will sponsor a Distinguished Educator session for your campus to help promote positive instructional practices and researched based pedagogical uses of student response in the classroom.
TTDE Session Focus Include:
- Systemic pedagogical uses of student response
- Effective authoring of purposeful student response content
- Integrating student response into a existing curriculum, technologies, and programs.
Dr. Eric Mazur and Dr. Derek Bruff are Turning’s Keynote Distinguished Educator selections.
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Dr. Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. In 1990 he began developing the Peer Instruction method for teaching large lecture classes interactively and is the author of Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997). Dr. Mazur’s teaching method has developed a large following, both nationally and internationally, and has been adopted across many disciplines. Mazur is also the Chairman of the Instructional Strategy Advisory Group for Turning Technologies.
Dr. Eric Mazur stated, "Student response systems are the perfect complement to Peer Instruction, a strategy I developed to help engage my students in the classroom. Combining Peer Instruction with Turning Technologies’ software and clickers allows my students to develop critical thinking skills in a truly collaborative and active classroom setting and has resulted in improved learning outcomes. I’m looking forward to sharing these insights with my colleagues as part of Turning’s Distinguished Educator Program."
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Dr. Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University’s Assistant Director of the University Center for Teaching and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, has written a book, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments, published by Jossey-Bass in February 2009. Bruff’s research investigates the effective uses of classroom response systems. He consults regularly with instructors in a variety of disciplines at Vanderbilt and elsewhere about teaching with clickers, offering workshops for instructors at colleges, universities and online. |
Other Distinguished Educators include:
- Micki Cuppett, EdD, University of South Florida
- Kerry Richards Hoffman, Penn State University
- Steve Serrao, Loma Linda
- Mark Taylor, Ph.D, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- Andrei Straumanis, University of Washington
- Sydney Beckman, Lincoln Memorial University
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- Tony Onofrietti, University of Utah
- Teri Bump, American Campus Communities
- Jennifer Cowley, University of Kentucky
- Kevin Clauson, NOVA Southeastern University
- Andrew A. Thostenson, North Dakota State University
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