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The conference theme is:
Establishing Meaning in Teaching and Learning:
As the focus of education continues to shift from teaching to learning, shifting responsibility from the teacher to the student, the scholarship of teaching and learning seeks to bring meaning to what it means to teach and what constitutes learning. Bringing a scholarly approach to teaching and learning often leads to innovative teaching practices, which in turn lead to increased reflection about which outcomes and methodologies best characterize quality education. Similarly, many innovative teaching methods result from reflective practice. These innovations often result in increased collaboration among faculty, and also with students, in the enterprise of teaching/learning. This collaboration helps to form communities of practitioners where connections help to establish and sustain shared purpose and meaning; and associated action research and dissemination of best practices leads to higher order thinking by all involved. The theme of the 2012 conference was selected to stimulate increased quality of teaching and learning by spotlighting the natural relationship between classroom innovation, reflective practice, and the scholarship of teaching/learning.
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