Active Learning Institute

Active Learning Institute (ALI)

Each year, DCAL will host the Active Learning Institute.  It is sponsored and directed by Academic Computing, DCAL and the Library with support from the Writing Program.

Participants will receive a $500 stipend for full participation in the two-day institute. Anyone holding a faculty teaching appointment at Dartmouth at any rank (Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Tuck and DMS) is eligible to apply.

To apply for the institute, please submit the following to DCAL (HB 6247 or DCAL@Dartmouth.Edu):

• A brief statement (800 words or less) of the specific teaching challenges you wish to address over the two-day institute. Please identify the Dartmouth course you regularly teach or plan to teach in which these challenges arise and for which you plan to adopt new tools and techniques.

• Your current CV, including name, address, phone number and e-mail address.

Please see the deadline dates listed on our news page.

Comments from Previous Participants

• "ALI is a phenomenal asset to this college. I not only learned valuable practical content, but I also find myself sharing these ideas with my colleagues in informal discussions. It's rare to have a two-day workshop have such a strong positive impact."
• "All in all, the Institute ranks among my most productive professional education experiences."
• "I do not think I could overstate how much the experience, authority, authenticity, intelligence, commitment, and enthusiasm of the facilitators and other participants defined my ALI experience. They helped me see how these techniques could be used and gave me the sense that it would be OK to try using them."
• "I was pleasantly surprised with just how incredibly useful it was."

Previous ALI Participants

Art History—Marlene Heck
Business Administration—Ye Luan, Richard McNulty
Chemistry—Richard Stolzberg
Community and Family Medicine—Carolyn Murray
Economics—Parama Chaudhury
Education—Donna Coch
English—Colleen Boggs, Michael Chaney, Mishuana Goeman (also NAS), Ivy Schweitzer (also WGST)
Epidemiology—Don Likosky
French & Italian—Michael Fodor, Nancy Canepa
Government—Lisa Baldez,  James Murphy
History—Cecilia Gaposchkin, Leslie Butler
Japanese—James Dorsey
Mathematics—Stephanie Treneer
Philosophy—Carey Heckman
Physics & Astronomy—Robyn Millan
Psychological and Brain Sciences—Thalia Wheatley, Mark Detzer, David Bucci
Public Health—Sharon McDonnell
Religion—Reiko Ohnuma
Spanish & Portuguese—Ana Merino
Writing and Rhetoric—Sara Chaney, Joshua Compton, Carl Thum, Jonna Mackin