Dr Cathryn DONOHUE, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

Teaching in the new millennium: Fostering research in the learning environment. Faculty of Humanities International Speaker Series (for SWJTU faculty on international perspectives on how to nurture research and teaching). Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China (hybrid mode), 23 May 2022.

Abstract
In this talk, I will discuss contemporary views on the evolving role of technology in the classroom and how it should be reconceptualized to not just mirror traditional learning activities, but to supplement them with new goals and revised learning outcomes. The plethora of different tools now available to us finally put achieving more ambitious learning outcomes and incorporating research components into the curriculum within our grasp. In this seminar I discuss the background, the theory, and the practice, illustrating with specific examples and demonstrating some of the tools.