The first meeting of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Colloquium in 2012 will explore methods to "make the large classroom small." Professor Goldberry Long of the Department of Creative Writing, and Leo Schouest, a learning and technology expert in the Office of Computing and Communications, will be describing and demonstrating techniques for using the organization of classroom space and clicker technology to make the lecture hall experience more personal and to engage students in classroom discussion.

Among the topics Long and Schouest will discuss are division of classrooms into quadrants to encourage a more communal field, challenging students in each quadrant to answer a discussion question, breaking the class into small groups to discuss clicker questions, and fishbowl discussions in which some students are inside the fishbowl and others are outside.

The Colloquium, "Making the Large Class Small," will be offered twice. The first colloquium will be held on Tuesday, January 31 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in 379 HUB. The second will be held on Wednesday, February 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in 379 HUB. The two meetings are intended to accommodate faculty members and interested graduate students who have MWF and TR schedules.