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Sir Ken Robinson to Serve as Keynote Speaker at Mizzou’s Celebration of Teaching

Robinson speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education.

One of the world’s leading speakers will come to the University of Missouri in May. Sir Ken Robinson, PhD., will deliver the keynote address at the 2012 Celebration of Teaching.

Robinson is an internationally-recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. Videos of Robinson’s talks to the prestigious TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference in 2006 and 2010 have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries. Read More

MU Courses Receive New Look

In an on-going effort to ensure pedagogy on the MU campus remains at a high-quality; six courses at MU are taking part in course redesign projects with an aim of creating new student learning outcomes.

One avenue to accomplish that is to enhance the effective use of technology in the classroom. Instructors are working with teams from their colleges and departments and with Educational Technologies at Missouri (ET@MO) to incorporate new teaching methods and technologies into the framework of their classes. Read More

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• Two Mizzou Advisers Earn National Award
• Career Counselors, Coaches Offer Support
• Mizzou’s Success with ICCTL Awards Continues
• Students Honored at MU Excels
• Mizzou Honors Excellence in Advising
• University of Missouri Honored for Community Service

Maxine Chistropher Shutz Award and Lecture for Distinguished Teaching

Vitor Trindade, Associate Professor of Economics

Congratulations to Vitor Trindade, Associate Professor of Economics, recipient of the 2010 Maxine Chistropher Shutz Award and Lecture for Distinguished Teaching.

This award is annually presented to a faculty member who has demonstrated extra efforts to involve undergraduates in active learning experiences and to personalize the undergraduate experience of students.