It includes but goes considerably beyond the recent discussions about active learning principles. Our focus has been on learning that has a sustained and substantial influence on the thinking and practices of students. In those international institutes, we have found ways to share the results of our research with participants and to allow them the opportunity to apply those results to their own teaching, to exchange ideas about those applications with colleagues from around the world, to receive feedback from the institute staff, and to develop ways to share insights with colleagues back home. The institute offers a series of highly interactive workshops and an opportunity for important conversations about higher education. Each year, we invite to the institute the most outstanding educators in the United States and a select few people from other countries, creating a vigorous and productive exchange of ideas and perspectives.
Enrollment is limited.
We have included on the program both people who have been responsible for the study and some of the best teachers they have studied. She is an extraordinarily gifted educator who has also received numerous awards from students for her teaching. Her course in Neurosciences to second year students is considered a model course and was listed by Vanderbilt students as one of the reasons the school, in a recent national survey, ranked first in the United States in student satisfaction with their education. She lectures throughout the United States on education reform and acts as a consultant to medical schools. In addition to her teaching in the medical school, she teaches a highly lauded course in the neurosciences for undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt.