Please check out the Center for Teaching+Learning Enhancement website for all of the information about the Faculty Professional Development workshops planned for March 23. Dr. Bob Noyd will deliver three interactive sessions in the Spindletop Room of the Gray Library. Contact the CTLE staff if you have any questions. The annual Assessment Conference was very informative on many fronts. The LU team was a little concerned because we made our presentation at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Much to our surprise and delight, we had a full room. If you are involved in assessment in any way, this conference would certainly be beneficial to you. We at the CTLE carried the banner pushing for closer ties between the assessment and faculty development folks. The Windsor-Oakland University Teaching and Learning Conference, themed Moving Beyond the Traditional Classroom: Engaging Students Through Experience will be hosted this year by the University of Windsor May 19 and 20. Experiential learning – a broad term that encompasses service learning, community-based learning, situated learning, and many other active learning strategies – has long been recognized as a powerful way to engage students, deepen understanding, and help create the conditions that enable students to transfer what they have learned to new contexts. They are presently accepting proposals around this broad theme until February 28. Have you ever been approached about teaching a course online? Chloe Yelena Miller offers some insightful advice and notes that more than one in four students took at least one online course in the fall of 2008.