The Best of Both Worlds: Blended Learning in the Language Classroom

Increasing class sizes and teaching online have been challenges to effective language instruction and other domains that require high instructor to student contact and peer-to-peer contact. In this lecture, Rubio will discuss strategies that his Spanish Language Department has used at the University of Utah to reduce the cost of instruction, maintain the same level of proficiency, and increase both instructor satisfaction and student retention using hybrid courses.  

 
Fernando Rubio has a PhD in Spanish Linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and he is currently teaching Spanish Linguistics at the University of Utah, where he is also Co-Director of the Second Language Teaching and Research Center. He is the author of two textbooks, and editor of Hybrid Language Teaching and Learning: Exploring Theoretical, Pedagogical and Curricular Issue, Heinle, 2012.
 

 

 

Date:
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Location:
P.O.T, 18th floor, West End

Cold War Perspectives

 

 

This event was made possible through the generous sponsorship of the University of Kentucky College of Fine Art, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Department of Modern & Classical Languages Literature & Cultures, UK College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Board and School of Art and Visual Studies.

 

 

"The Making of an Icon: Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side"

Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program of Ben Gurion University

Lecture: "The Making of an Icon: Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side"
Monday April 22, 2013, 7 pm, Alumni Auditorium, W.T. Young Library
Date:
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Location:
Alumni Auditorium, W.T. Young Library
Event Series:

Rosie Moosnick, book signing and lecture

Lexington, KY native Nora Rose "Rosie" Moosnick is a sociologist by training and has just published her second book, Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity. Book signing

Lecture: Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity

Reception to follow

Sponsored in part by Univerisity Press of Kentucky

 

Date:
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Location:
Boone Center
Event Series:

The Moosnick Lecture Series

Rabbi Michael J. Cook, PhD.

Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures, and the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor in Judaeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio.

“Judaism, Christianity, and the Crucifixion: Coexistence versus Anti-Semitism on Parchment”

With reception following sponsored by the Moosnick family

Date:
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Location:
Ohavay Zion Synagogue
Event Series:

The Best of Both Worlds: Blended Learning in the Language Classroom”

The Best of Both Worlds: Blended Learning in the Language Classroom”

Lecture by Dr. Fernando Rubio

Wednesday, March 06

2:30-4:30 pm

P.O.T 18th floor, West End

 

Dr. Rubio has a  PhD in Spanish Linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and he is currently teaching Spanish Linguistics at the University of Utah, where he is also Co-Director of the Second Language Teaching and Research Center. His research interests are in the areas of Applied Linguistics and Teaching Methodologies. In 2009 he was awarded the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) Exemplary Faculty Use of Technology Award and in 2012 he received the ACTFL Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology. He has given talks, keynotes, and workshops on language and technology all over the country.  He has taught online and hybrid language courses for years, including the first foreign language MOOC* ever taught (currently in progress).

He is the author of two textbooks, Tercer Milenio, Kendall-Hunt, 2009, and Juntos, Cengage (forthcoming) and editor of Hybrid Language Teaching and Learning: Exploring Theoretical, Pedagogical and Curricular Issues, Heinle, 2012.

 

(*) MOOC: Massive Open Online Course

Date:
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Location:
P.O.T 18th floor, West End

WUKY's "UK Perspectives" Continues Discussion of 'Reimagining Russia's Realms'

WUKY's "UK Perspectives" focuses on the people and programs of the University of Kentucky and is hosted by WUKY General Manager Tom Godell. Today's program is a continuation of last week's conversation about "Reimagining Russia's Realms," the College of Arts and Sciences' in-depth examination of the people, art, cultures and homelands of Eurasia.

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