2019

Final Meeting of the Erasmus Decoding the Disciplines Project, VIVES University College, Torhout, Belgium, July 2

“Discovering What Your Students Need to Know: The Decoding the Disciplines Interview,” Preconference Workshop, EuroSoTL Conference, Bilbao, Spain, June 12. (With Peter Lohse)

30th Annual Wakonse Conference, Wakonse. Michigan, Saturday, May 25

 

2018   

History Department, Wayne State University, September 28

 Technische Universität München,  Freising, Germany, June 11 (with Niall Palfreyman)

 Illinois State University, March 29-30

 Mercy College, March 14

  Carthage College, January 13

  2017

  “Decoding History,” University of Colorado, Boulder, December 8, 2018

 “An Introduction to the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm,” Technische Universität München, July 3

Universität Regensburg, June 29

Universität Bayreuth, June 28

Universität Würzburg, June 26

Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 23

Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, June 22

Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik (DiZ), Ingolstadt, June 21

Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, June 14 and 19

 “The Challenge of Decoding Our Disciplines,” Keynote address, Sheridan Creates,Sheridan College, March 1

 “Using Decoding the Disciplines to Increase Student Learning,” U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, January 9.

 “Focus on Teaching Preconference Workshop,” Meetings of the American Historical Association, Denver, Colorado, January 5 (with Joel H. Sipress, Leah Shopkow, Laura Westhoff, Lendol G. Calder, Peter G. Felten, and Flannery Burk

 2016

  “Indiana University Transformative Learning Collegium,” Bloomington Indiana, July 5-8, 2016 (with George Rehry and Shannon Sipes), June

“From Regurgitation to Interpretation: Decoding the Disciplines and Generating Theses,” 17th Annual Midwest Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), South Bend, Indiana, April 1, 2016

  2015

“On the Threshold of College: Using Decoding the Disciplines to Ease Students’ Transitions,” Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, June 18, 2015

“Using Decoding the Disciplines to Zero in On Student Learning Issues,” Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, June 16, 2015

“Using Decoding the Disciplines to Ease Students Through Key Transitions,” Preconference Workshop, European Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Cork, Ireland, June 7, 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)

“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? – Decoding the Disciplines,” University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, December 4, 2013

“Eliminating Zombies with Decoding the Disciplines and Threshold Concepts,” Preconference Workshop, Annual Meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 2, 2013 (with Arlene Díaz and Joan Middendorf)

“Pleasure in the Classroom: Reviving Teaching and Learning with Decoding the Disciplines,” Waterloo University, April 25, 2013.

“Putting Decoding to Work in Your Classroom and/or Your Scholarship,” Mount Royal University, April 22, 2013

” Decoding the Disciplines as a Tool in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Mount Royal University, April 22, 2013

“What Do They Really Need to Learn? Using Decoding the Disciplines to Make Explicit the Essential Learning in Your Discipline,” Mount Royal University, April 22, 2013

“Decoding the Disciplines Workshop,” Marquette University, February 27, 2013

2012

“Decoding the Disciplines as an aid to the preparation of future faculty,” University of Chicago, December 6, 2012

“Decoding History,” University of Chicago, December 6, 2012

“Decoding the Disciplines: Getting through bottlenecks and thresholds,” Preconference workshop at the meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Hamilton Ontario,  October 27, 2012 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)

“Lessons from Decoding the Humanities and the Social Sciences, “University of Texas at El Paso, August 23, 2012

“Decoding Threshold Concepts, Threshold Concepts Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 27, 2012

  History Survey Project, University of Texas at El Paso, June 13, 2012

  2011

 Stonehill College, October 11, 2011

“Balancing the Tripod with Decoding the Disciplines: Connecting Epistemology, Expert Practice and Pedagogy to Develop Disciplinary Thinking in Students,” International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Milwaukee, October 20, 2012 (with Arlene Díaz, Joan Middendorf, and Leah Shopkow)

Colby-Sawyer College, May 11, 2012 (with Joan Middendorf)

University of New South Wales, April 29, 2011

 2010

Georgetown University, May 24-26, 2010

“Decoding the Disciplines:  Getting Clear for Assessment and Mentoring,” Elon University, August 18, 2010 (with Joan Middendorf)

2009

“Decoding Our Disciplines:  Making What is Obvious to Us Comprehensible to Our Students,” University of Cincinnati, May 7, 2009

2008

Workshop on defining the operations needed in history courses to the History Department of the University of Kansas, April 25, 2008

  2005

“Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking,” Otterbein College, September, 2005 (with Joan Middendorf)

“Decoding Geology: Helping Students to Think as Geologists”, Geological Sciences Department, Indiana University, Nov. 29, 2004 

2002

“Understanding How Your Students Learn: A Workshop of Teaching Assistants”  University of Illinois, February, 2002.