Center for Learning and Teaching
The Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) promotes excellence in teaching, including the effective application of technology to the teaching/learning process. CLT supports faculty in their efforts to enhance the quality of their instruction by providing them with the opportunity to rethink their teaching, explore the effective application of technology to the teaching/learning process, and help create a stimulating learning environment. More
CLT 2013 Symposium: "Innovative Pedagogies and Technologies for 21st-Century Learning"
Inauguration Session by Eric Mazur: “Educating the Innovators of the 21st Century”
Thursday, April 18, 2013
1 - 4 pm, Moataz Al Alfi Hall
Can we teach innovation? Innovation requires whole-brain thinking — left-brain thinking for creativity and imagination, and right-brain thinking for planning and execution. Our current approach to education in science and technology focuses on the transfer of information, developing mostly right-brain thinking by stressing copying and reproducing existing ideas rather than generating new ones. Professor Mazur will show how shifting the focus in lectures from delivering information to team work and creative thinking greatly improves the learning that takes place in the classroom and promotes independent thinking.
Eric Mazur, prominent Harvard physicist and national leader in science education will be the distinguished visiting professor and keynote speaker at the launch of the symposium.
Symposium Sessions
Sunday, April 21, 2013
9 am - 3 pm
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Hall, Room P071
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To register, please call ext. 3733 or email
clt@aucegypt.edu.
"Stopping Time" by Eric Mazur
Friday, April 19, 2013, 6 - 8 pm
Amonasro Salon, Cairo Marriott Hotel, Zamalek
Time is of philosophical interest as well as the subject of mathematical and scientific research. Even though it is a concept familiar to most, the passage of time remains one of the greatest enigmas of the universe. The philosopher Augustine once said: "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks me, I do not know." The concept time indeed cannot be explained in simple terms. Emotions, life and death -- all are related to our interpretation of the irreversible flow of time. After a discussion of the concept of time, Professor Mazur will review historical attempts to "stop time," that is, to capture events of very short duration and then present an overview of current research into ultrafast processes using short laser pulses.
To register, please call ext. 3733 or email clt@aucegypt.edu.