2019
“What is Wrong with Decoding the Disciplines 1.0,” EuroSoTL Conference, Bilbao, Spain, June 14.
2018
“What We Are Hiding From Our Students, Keynote Address, 3rd Annual Midyear Colloquium of the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Section of the American Accounting Association, Dallas, Texas, November 9
2017
“Beyond Decoding the Disciplines 1.0: Opening up the Swiss Army Knife of Decoding?,“ 17th Annual Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Calgary, Canada, October 13, 2017 (with Janice Miller-Young, Peter Felten, Jolanta Mickute, Sarah Drake Brown)
“Research-Based Lesson Design: Decoding Content and Pedagogy,” 17th Annual Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Calgary, Canada, October 13, 2017 (with Gregor Novak, David Pace, Randall Carleston)
“Experiencing the Decoding the Disciplines Interview: An Interactive Exploration of the Disciplinary Unconscious,” 17th Annual Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Calgary, Canada, October 12, 2017 (with Jennifer Boman, Genevieve Currie, Janice Miller-Young, Michelle Yeo).
“Decoding Group Activities in Interactive Teaching,” EuroSoTL, Lund University Sweden, June (with Peter Riegler and Stefan Dröschler)
2016
“Why Don’t They Get it? Decoding the Gap Between Faculty Expertise and Student Failure,” Keynote address at Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in and Across the Disciplines,” Banff, Canada, November 10, 2016
“Bielefeld Conference on Teaching History in Higher Education,” University of Bielefeld May 24-25 2016
“Empowering Teachers and Teaching through SoTL Communities: Past, Present, and Future,” Keynote address at the 17th Annual Midwest Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), South Bend, Indiana, April 1, 2016
“Making Learning Outcomes Work: Tuning Assessments and Course Designs with Tools from the History Learning Project,” 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 8, 2016.
2015
“Decoding the Disciplines: A Tool for Inviting Students into Our Disciplines,” Faculty Senate Retreat, Indiana University East, August 20, 2015
“How Do We Realize the Unity of Research and Teaching,” Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, June 11, 2015
“Undergraduate students decoding the disciplines: A SoTL partnership studying the political science literature review,” European Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Cork, Ireland, June 9, 2015. (With Rachel Mehaffey, Julie Phillips, Mary Rouse, Peter Felten, and Susannah McGowan)
“Learning in Networks of Knowledge (LINK): Toward a New Digital Tool for Cultivating Historical Thinking,” Meetings of the American Historical Association, New York City, January 5, 2015 (with Ali Erkan and Michael Smith)
“The Global Tuning Project: Reframing Historical Study in the European Union, Latin America, and the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning, Meetings of the American Historical Association, New York City, January 3, 2015
2014
“Think Globally, Act Decodingly,” Annual Meetings of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, Dallas Texas, November 7, 2014 (With Joan Middendorf and Kathy Takayama)
“Ten Ways to Decode an Onion: Strategies from Four Continents, Annual Meetings of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, Dallas Texas, November 6, 2014 (With Joan Middendorf)
“An Accountant, A Geologist, and A Historian Walk into a Bar. . . .Decoding Disciplinary Epistemologies,” Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Quebec City, Canada, October 23, 2014 (With Joan Middendorf, Leah Shopkow, Jim Barnett, and Julie Timmermans)
“Decoding the Disciplines Across the Globe: Adapting a SoTL Paradigm to Different Institutional Cultures,” Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Quebec City, Canada, October 23, 2014 (With Miako Rankin, Miller-Young, and Swantje Lahm)
“Six Ways to Decode a Discipline,” Preconference workshop, Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Quebec City, Canada, October 22, 2014 (With Joan Middendorf and Swantje Lahm)
“Decoding History,” University of Memphis, March 21, 2014
“Introduction to Decoding the Disciplines,” Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the Free State, January 27, 2014
“Introducing the Decoding the Disciplines model,” University of the Free State, Bloemfontein campus, January 28, 2014
“Putting the Decoding to work in your classroom,” Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein campus, January 30, 2014
“Introducing the Decoding the Disciplines model,” University of the Free State, Bloemfontein campus (General workshop for South African instructors and administrators from other campuses), January 31, 2014
2013
“How do We Realize the Unity of Research and Teaching? – The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” University of Bielefeld, December 4, 2013
“Placing SoTL at the Core of the Preparation of Future Instructors: Models from History, Annual Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 4, 2013 (with Linda Westhof, James Cronin, Bettie Higgs, Arlene Díaz, Leah Shopkow, and Joan Middendorf)
“Beyond Coverage: Using Threshold Concepts and Decoding the Disciplines to Focus on the Most Essential Learning Annual Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 3, 2013 (with Arlene Díaz, Bettie Higgs, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
“Preparing the Next Generation: Placing SoTL at the Core of the Preparation of Future History Instructors,” Annual Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 4, 2013 (with Arlene Díaz, Bettie Higgs, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
2012
” Decoding the Disciplines and Threshold Concepts: A Conversation between Paradigms,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Hamilton Ontario, October 27, 2012 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
” Illustrating Humanist SoTL,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Hamilton Ontario, October 26, 2012 (with Nancy Chick , Patricia H Michaelson, and Sherry Linkon)
” We Have Found the Threshold and it is Us: “Decoding” the Disconnect between Disciplinary Thinking and Teaching Practice,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Hamilton Ontario, October 27, 2012 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
” A Humanistic Adaptation of the Maryland Physics Expectations Survey (MPEX),” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Hamilton Ontario, October 27, 2012 (with Michael Smith, Ali Erkan, and Randall Bass)
“Mastering a Threshold Concept through Decoding the Disciplines,” 4th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 2012.
2011
“Decoding the Disciplines: An Epistemological Response to “Academically Adrift,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Milwaukee, October 21, 2011 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
“Decoding and Technology: Using Prezi to Help Students Master the Art of Organizing a Paper,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Milwaukee, October 21
Quick Hits: Tools and Processes for Understanding Methods of Inquiry and Dissemination, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Milwaukee, October 22, 2011 (with Carol Hostetter, Bernice Pescosolido, and Whitney Schlegel)
“Learning as Transformation: Using Decoding the Disciplines to Transform Ourselves and Our Students,” Teagle/Spencer Systematic Improvement Project Conference, Duke University, June 10, 2011 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
“Decoding History – Steps to the Assessment of Learning” at the “After Standards: the Future of History Conference,” Sidney Australia, April 28, 2011
2010
“Embracing Failure: A workshop on failure in SOTL and learning from mistakes,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Liverpool, U.K. October 22, 2010 (with Sean S Brawley, Sarah Richardson, Alan Booth, Paul Hyland, Geoff Timmins, and T. Mills Kelly)
“Decoding Student Motivation in History: The Double Loops of Accountability and Assessment,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Liverpool, U.K. October 19, 2010 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
“Emotional Bottlenecks to Teaching and Learning: Using Decoding the Disciplines to Address the Emotional Conflicts and Block Learning,” Pre-conference Workshop at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Liverpool, U.K. October 19, 2010 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
“Just-in-time Teaching and Decoding the Disciplines,” ,” Pre-conference Workshop at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Liverpool, U.K. October 19, 2010 (with Gregor Novak and Steven Novotny)
“Connecting with Colleagues to Deepen Student Learning,” Plenary Address at 7th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon University, August 19, 2010 (with Joan Middendorf)
“Where Do History Students Encounter Bottlenecks to Learning,” Uppsala Conference on History Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Uppsala, Sweden, June 10, 2010.
“Big Concepts and Instructional Bottlenecks: the ‘Decoding the Disciplines’ Approach,” Georgetown University, January 21, 2010
“Improving Teaching and Learning Through Experimentation and Assessment: The History Learning Project,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C., January 21, 2010. (with Leah Shopkow)
2009
“Developing a systematic SoTL inquiry project using the “Decoding the Disciplines” methodology,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bloomington, IN., October 22, 2009.
“Decoding Assessment – Or How Do We Know that Our Students Learned,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Bloomington, IN., October 23, 2009.
“Modeling the Use of Evidence in Student Argument, Teagle/Spencer Project Annual Meeting, Duke University, June 12, 2009. (With Leah Shopkow)
“Helping Our Students Overcome Bottlenecks to Learning,” University of Cincinnati, May 8, 2009
“Decoding a History Department: Mobilizing Faculty Resources for the Analysis of a Discipline,” Keynote address at 11th Annual Conference History in Higher Education, University of Oxford, April 1, 2009 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
“Decoding the Disciplines: Navigational Check & Midcourse Corrections, 11th Annual Conference History in Higher Education, University of Oxford, April 1, 2009 (with Joan Middendorf)
2008
“Connecting SOTL to Its Audiences: How the Experience in History Might Aid Other Disciplines,” Meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Edmonton, Alberta, October 17, 2008 (with Alan Booth, Sean Brawley, Keith Erekson, Andrew Koke, and Geoff Timmins)
“A Research-Based Curriculum and Assessment: The History Learning Project,” Meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Edmonton, Alberta, October 17, 2008 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow).
“The Ethical Imperative of Teaching Well: New Challenges and Opportunities from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Keynote address at the Greater Kansas City Area Symposium on Teaching and Learning, April 26, 2008.
2007
“Teaching the Mental Operations a Department Requires of Its Students,” Indiana University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Lecture Series, September 2007 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
“Decoding Your Discipline: Defining What is Obvious to You and Mystifying to Your Students,” City University of Hong Kong, April 2007
“Decoding the Disciplines and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Experience of the Indiana University Freshman Learning Project,” Elon University, March 2007
“Bringing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Bear on the Challenges of the History Classroom,” “Decoding the Disciplines and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” and “Reaching Across the Chasm: Establishing Links Between History Teachers in Secondary Schools and Universities,” Metropolitan State College of Denver, February 2007
2006
“Decoding History: Making Explicit the Mental Operations A Department Expects of its Students,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Washington, D.C., November 2006 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)
“Organizing Disciplines for SoTL: Building on the Strategies of Historians in the UK, US, and Australia,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Washington, D.C., November 2006 (with Alan Booth, Sean Brawley, and Geoff Timmins)
“Tools and Processes: Understanding Methods of Inquiry and Dissemination,” Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Washington, D.C., November 2006 (with Carol Hostetter, Bernice Pescosolido, and David Malik)
“Assessing Learning in History, 18th Annual Retreat of the “Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, Angola, Indiana, May 2006
“Preparing Future Faculty Programs in American History Departments” The 8th Annual Conference on History in Higher Education, University of Oxford, April 2006
“Are History Students in Our Classes Really Learning What We Want to Teach Them?” The 8th Annual Conference on History in Higher Education, University of Oxford, April 2006
2005
“Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking,” Otterbein College, September, 2005
“Where the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning History Stands in the United States Today,” Disciplinary Perspectives on Research about History Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Issues and Opportunities, invitational symposium sponsored by the Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses Project and the Higher Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archeology of the United Kingdom, Edinburgh, June 2005
Presentation on “Seven Steps to Decoding the Disciplines” FACET Annual Meetings, Angola, Indiana, May 2005
Facilitated a three-workshop for historians writing on the scholarship of teaching and learning at Georgetown University sponsored by the Visible Knowledge Project, April 2005
“Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Overcome Obstacles to Learning in Your Classes,” Keynote Address at the University of Akron’s annual Celebration of Excellence in Learning and Teaching, April 2005
2004
“Decoding Geology: Helping Students to Think as Geologists”, Geological Sciences Department, Indiana University, Nov. 29, 2004
“Something Borrowed: What We Have to Learn from the Literature on History Teaching in High School,” Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bloomington, IN, Oct. 22, 2004
“Decoding the Disciplines: A Model for Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking,” Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Bloomington, IN, Oct. 22, 2004 (with Joan Middendorf)
“Decoding the Disciplines: 7 Steps to Overcome Obstacles to Learning,” Poster Presentation at Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Spring Celebration, Bloomington, Indiana, April 23, 2004 (with Joan Middendorf)
2003
“The Role of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Professional Development” on Panel Sponsored by the Indiana University Office of Research, October 2003.
“So, What is My Job Anyway? How a Project in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Raises Questions about the Nature of Faculty Work,” Annual Faculty Retreat on Active Learning: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 27, 2003.
2002
Panelist on “Diversity in the Humanities” at Carnegie Fellows’ Notre Dame Diversity Conference: Challenges in Diversity – Gender, Class and Ethnicity: Strategies for Teaching & Learning,” Notre Dame University, Nov.7, 2002
“Rethinking Reading: Knowing What We Want Our Students to Do,” Keynote Address, Annual Conference on History in Higher Education, University of Oxford, April, April 2002.
“Using Course Web Sites to Model the Thinking of History,” Annual Conference on History in Higher Education, University of Oxford, April, University of Oxford, April 2002
“Teaching Our Students to Think in the Language of Our Disciplines,” Keynote address, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Annual Faculty Colloquium on Teaching, February, 2002.
“‘Read Pages 23-49 . . .’ What Do We Want Students To Do When We Ask Them to Read?” American Historical Association Meeting, San Francisco, January 2002
2001
”From Theory to Practice to Theory: Using Others’ Classrooms as Doorways to Understanding Your Own,” IUB Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Lecture Series, January 2001
“Just in Time Teaching in the Humanities: Using Web-Based Warm-up Exercises in the Humanities” at the annual meetings of the International Society for the Exploration of Teaching Alternatives, Indianapolis, October, 2001.
“Turning Abstract Learning Goals into Concrete Faculty Strategies: The ‘Operations Interviews’,” Annual Meetings of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, St.Louis, October 2001 (with Joan Middendorf)
“The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Redrawing the Conceptual Map of Higher Education,” St. Olaf College, April 23, 2001
“The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Historian’s Perspective,” Conference on Teaching and Learning Across the Disciplines: Models for Scholarship, Youngstown State University, February 23, 2001
2000
“‘Remind Me Why I Got Excited About Teaching’: Faculty Change through the Creation of Cohorts,” Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, 25th Annual Conference, Vancouver, Nov. 10, 2000. (with Joan Middendorf)
“Higher Level Thinking in Large Lecture Classes: The Warm-Up Exercise,” Indiana University Symposium, April 7, 2000 (with Joan Middendorf, IUB, Professor Gregor Novak, IUPUI, and Professor James Brophy, IUB)
“Modeling the Craft of History on a Course Website,” Indiana University Teaching Learning Technologies Lab Faculty Project Showcase, May 24, 2000
“Show Casing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University South Bend, April 14, 2000 (with Dennis Jacobs Notre Dame University and Craig Nelson, IUB)
“New Visions of Teaching and Scholarship : (1)The Future of History in the New Academia,” University of Toronto – October 22, 1999
“New Visions of Teaching and Scholarship: (2) Developing a Strategy for Departmental Success in a New World of Higher Education,” October 25, 1999 “A Student’s Guide to the Tower of Babel: Teaching the Culture of Our Disciplines,” Dean of Faculty and RUGS lecture series on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, October 21, 1999
“A Model for Thinking About Scholarship of Teaching,” A Community of Scholars of Teaching and Learning, Sponsored by the Indiana University Dean of Faculties Office
“Strategies for Effecting Campus Reform“ I.U. Summer Leadership Institute, June 1999
“Mobilizing Faculty to Rethink Student Learning: The IUB Freshman Learning Project,” 17Annual Spring Symposium, Bloomington, Indiana, 1999
“The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Mental Map of Academia,” University Colloquium on the Scholarship of Teaching, Dean of Faculties/ Research and University Graduate School Colloquium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, February 1999
1998
“What Do We Want Them to Do? The Indiana University Freshman Learning Project’s Effort to Define and to Model Disciplinary Expectations in Introductory Courses,” International First-Year Experience Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July 1998
“Teaching Controversial Topics,” Panel in Indiana University Teaching Resources College Teaching Workshop Series, March 1, 1996.
1995
“Creating a Departmental Teaching Community through Faculty/TA Cooperation,” presented at “The Professional Apprenticeship: TAs in the 21st Century” (5th National Conference on the Education and Employment of Graduate Teaching Assistants), Denver, Colorado, November 1995 (Presented with Mary Cunningham, Stephen Kercher, and Meg Meneghel)
Panelist at session on “Designing a College Pedagogy Program at a Research University” at “The Professional Apprenticeship: TAs in the 21st Century” (5th National Conference on the Education and Employment of Graduate Teaching Assistants), November 1995
“Profiling the I.U. Undergraduate” at the Indiana University Teaching Resources Center’s workshop for new faculty and A.I.s in August 1995-2006
Panelist in Teaching Resources Center session on “Advanced Discussion Techniques,” January 1995
1994
Panelist in Dean of Faculties panel discussion, “Teaching Graduate Students to Teach,” January 1994
1990
“Simulations as a Tool in Dealing with Cultural Diversity in the Classroom, Nola Hatterman Institut, Paramaribo, Surinam, July 1990
“Allan Bloom and Changing Definition of Culture in American Education,” Nola Hatterman Institut, Paramaribo, Surinam, July 1990
1987
“Simulations and Computers: New Horizons in the Teaching of the Social Sciences,” University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, March, 1987
1983
“Modern Europe in the Undergraduate Education”, Social Studies Development Center and West European Studies Program Conference on “Improving the Teaching of Contemporary Europe”, Bloomington, Nov. 1983