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PLATTEVILLE - Tom Lo Guidice, from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville's Teaching Excellence Center for Faculty Development, recently received approval for $1,300 in grant funding. Lo Guidice applied for an Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) follow-up Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Fall 2004 Conference Development Grant through the UW System OPID.

Focused on "Improving Professional Studies through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," the conference will be held on Friday, Nov. 19 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. via electronic communications. The goals of the conference include assisting professors of professional studies courses in formulating inquiries for the study of SoTL, helping these professors formulate discipline appropriate methods for assessing data responsive to the inquiries, as well as assisting building a network of scholars in selected professional studies areas to share SoTL work.

The Teaching Excellence Center works with different departments from UWP to organize the one-day conference on a myriad of professional study themes. The electronic organization of the conference occurs through the Desire to Learn program, teleconference and conference calls. The conference will also feature a keynote speaker using Badger net teleconference capabilities. Following the speaker will be a question and answer session via teleconference.

This will be followed by discipline specific discussion groups which will meet for 45 minutes via conference call. Professors from UWP will serve as discussion leaders using communication aspects of Desire to Learn.

All professional faculty may participate. If there are any questions, please contact Lo Guidice at the Teaching Excellence Center at UWP at (608) 342-1798.

Contact: Tom LoGuidice, Teaching Excellence Center, (608) 342-1798, loguidit@uwplatt.edu

Prepared by: Rachael Lehr, Public Relations, (608) 342-1194, lehrr@uwplatt.edu