Register now for the fifth annual University of Windsor and Oakland University Teaching and Learning Conference, themed, Beyond the Traditional Classroom: Engaging Students Through Experience, May 19 and 20, 2011, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. We’re pleased to offer you the following snapshots of this year’s conference events!

Featuring 97 presenters from 16 institutions across Canada and the United States facilitating sessions on experiential learning, the conference offers topics ranging from service learning to place-based pedagogy, from problem-based learning to authentic assessment, and from role-playing to simulations. You can find the conference schedule on our website: http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/oakland/index.php

You can also create your own customized and printable schedule of your day using the MySchedule feature at: http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/oakland/sched/. This feature allows you to mark sessions you are interested in by clicking on the stars that appear next to the session titles. This schedule can be printed and/or emailed to you.

This year’s the poster session will include an adjudicated competition involving peer-review and an international panel of judges. The Dr. Wilbert J. McKeachie International Poster Prize will be awarded on May 19.

We are excited to announce that we will close the conference this year with an Experiential Learning Expo, Friday, May 20 at 11:00am. At this special event, representatives from a number of universities in Ontario and Michigan will showcase their university’s experiential learning initiatives.

We invite you to register at http://cleo.uwindsor.ca/oakland/register/

Registration costs for University of Windsor and Oakland University faculty, staff, and students are underwritten wholly by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic, University of Windsor and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Oakland University.

For more information on the conference visit: www.uwindsor.ca/tlconf.