Seminar: Enrichment of teaching practices and presentation skills

Date and place

Date: January 29-30, 2009

Place: Röskö camping center

Description and aim of the seminar

The aim of the seminar is to share ideas, discuss and brainstorm how to improve teaching practices and methods in university teaching. The program of the seminar consists of short introductions to three different themes followed by discussion and group work.

Themes and instructors

The seminar will be tutored by following instructors with three different perspectives to the development of teaching practices at university

Tentative program

Thursday January 29, 2009

11.00 - 12.00 Travel from Joensuu to Röskö

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 14.45 Session 1: Activating lectures: techniques and methods, Prof. Atjonen

14.45 - 15.00 Coffee break

15.00 - 17.00 Session 2: Tandem Teaching as an example of eXtreme Teaching - case of programming course, Andrés Moreno

17.00 - 18.00 Dinner

Friday January 30, 2009

8.00 - 10.00 Breakfast

10.00 - 11.45 Session 3: How to give effective presentations?, Dr. Rogers

11.45 - 12.00 Concluding remarks

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 14.00 Travel from Röskö to Joensuu

Enrollment and fees

Number of participants: There is a limited amount of space in the seminar. Altoghether 10 participants will be accepted based on the order of enrollment.

Fee: The seminar is free for the staff of the Deparment of Computer Science and Statistics. For others the registeration fee is 100 euros.

Enrollment: Please enroll to the seminar by sending an email to Jarkko Suhonen (firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi).

Enrollment deadline: Friday, January 25, 2009


Last Update: Jan 5, 2009

Jarkko Suhonen; firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi