The annual Teaching & Learning Symposium brings together all of us—faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students—who teach and support learning in order to share best practices, celebrate accomplishments, discuss new teaching pedagogy, and explore themes of mutual interest. The Symposium is a free campus event that improves teaching and learning at UW-Madison.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Teaching & Learning Symposium, and this year’s theme celebrates that milestone: “Shaping our Future: Teaching and Learning at UW-Madison.” We will explore both what is enduring about teaching and learning at UW-Madison, and what has dramatically changed.  Issues to be discussed are the lasting values that frame our teaching, changes in what represents pedagogical innovation (and what the future might bring), revolutionary technological changes, and dramatic ways in which our students have changed, and learn.

Sessions and workshops will engage participants, build on research, highlight current and future campus initiatives, and focus on ways we can offer students an enriched learning experience. This is an opportunity to learn about teaching and learning models in disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts for undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

The 2008 Teaching and Learning Symposium is sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Council, Office of the Provost, the Teaching Academy, DoIT Academic Technology, General Library System, University Health Services, Office of Human Resource Development, University Communications, and Delta, a program of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), and the College of Letters and Science Office of Service Learning and Community Based Research (OSLCBR).