This workshop will consider goals of active learning, research into active learning, and provide participants with a toolbox of techniques to be applied in their classrooms.
Dr. Jennifer Faust is in her eighth year of teaching at Cal State, Los Angeles. She began experimenting with active and cooperative learning techniques nearly fifteen years ago as a graduate student, and now uses them in all of her introductory philosophy, critical thinking, and logic courses (as well as some of her upper-division courses). She has received three consecutive Cal State L.A. Innovative Instruction Awards, including one for the development of active learning techniques and one for training teaching assistants to use these techniques. Her areas of specialization include epistemology, metaphysics and logic. She is currently working on several research projects, including a text on applied epistemology and a study of the intersections of 'race' and the natural sciences (especially in biomedical research).
Dr. Donald Paulson is Professor of Chemistry at California State University, Los Angeles, where he was a recipient of the Outstanding Professor Award in 1979 and was the 1984 Cal State LA selection for the Trustees statewide outstanding professor award. He was awarded the first CSULA President's Distinguished Professor Award in 1997. He is active in the major professional societies of his field and has received more than 30 major grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other private foundations. His research areas include model systems for biological oxygen transfer, photochemistry, and conducting polymers.
For the past seven years Dr. Paulson has been incorporating Active Learning and Cooperative Learning into his classes and has done research on the effect of these techniques on student performance. Over the past four years he has given more than two dozen workshops for college science faculty in the use of these techniques.
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