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X-WR-CALNAME:Project-Based Learning: Motivations\, Implementation\, and Imp
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DESCRIPTION:Keynote Address\n\nZSR 404 (Auditorium)\n3:30PM-4:15PM\n\nRicha
 rd Vaz\, Director\, Center for Project-Based Learning Worcester Polytechni
 c Institute (WPI)\n\nIn this interactive lecture\, Richard Vaz\, Director 
 of the Center for Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institut
 e\, will introduce project-based learning (PBL) as a strategy for helping 
 students develop key skills and abilities such as critical thinking\, comm
 unication\, teamwork\, and creative problem-solving. He’ll help us explo
 re how PBL fits into the landscape of higher education\, look at examples 
 of PBL across the curriculum\, and discuss results from a study looking at
  long-term impacts of PBL on graduates.\n\n--\n\nFaculty Panel\n\nZSR 404 
 (Auditorium)\n4:15PM-5:00PM\n\nClaudia Kairoff\, Professor of English\nRow
 ie Kirby-Straker\, Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication\nAlan Bro
 wn\, Associate Professor of Education\nPhoebe Zerwick\, Associate Professo
 r of the Practice of Journalism\nPaúl Pauca\, Professor of Computer Scien
 ce\n\n--\n\nReception\n\nZSR 666\, Wilson Wing (TLC Lounge)\n5:00PM-6:00PM
 \n\n---\n\nRichard Vaz oversaw the expansion of WPI’s Global Projects Pr
 ogram from 18 locations in 2006 to 46 locations in 2015\, including new pr
 ograms in Africa\, the Americas\, Asia-Pacific\, and Europe. In that time\
 , Vaz helped drive an increase in student participation in off-campus proj
 ect programs\, from 40 percent to over 70 percent\, and a doubling of facu
 lty participation in those programs. He oversees efforts to evaluate and e
 nhance the quality of WPI’s interdisciplinary research project requireme
 nt\; from 2012 to 2014\, he directed a major study evaluating the long-ter
 m impacts of 38 years’ worth of project work by WPI alumni. In 2015\, he
  led the development and delivery of WPI’s first Institute on Project-Ba
 sed Learning\, an initiative to help other colleges and universities make 
 progress implementing project-based learning on their campuses.
GEO:36.132152;-80.27816
LOCATION:Z. Smith Reynolds Library\, 404 (Auditorium) & 666 Wilson Wing (TL
 C Lounge)
SUMMARY:Project-Based Learning: Motivations\, Implementation\, and Impacts
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.wfu.edu/event/project-based_learning_motivatio
 ns_implementation_and_impacts
CATEGORIES:Academics
CATEGORIES:Center for the Advancement of Teaching Special Events
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