About this year's conference

Join the conversation about teaching and learning at the 14th annual DePaul Faculty Teaching Conference! Share your teaching ideas, innovations, classroom research, strategies and/or challenges.

The theme of this year's conference focuses on ways that personalism plays out in various teaching practices at DePaul.

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Keynote: Blurring the Boundaries, The Personal and the Professional in a Webbed World

Dr. Punya Mishra of Michigan State University asks DePaul faculty to consider the role of the professor's identity (or persona) in course design. What are the challenges, benefits --and limits -- of bringing personal experiences, values and interests into one's teaching? We want our students to see us as "being knowledgeable yet accessible, wise but funny, cerebral but warm, benevolent and yet firm." How can we do this in an age where we are increasingly communicating via electronic media that alter, extend and/or challenge the teacher's identity?

Read more about Dr. Punya Mishra and his keynote presentation.