CPE Session 29: Sunday, August 5, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Using Active Learning and Technology to Improve Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

(Communications)

Description/Objectives:
Active learning and technology provide powerful, exciting, innovative ways for students to learn about accounting and for accounting educators to design learning activities and assess student performance of learning outcomes. In this workshop participants will learn about two active learning methods (accounting internships away from campus and demonstrations using LEGOs in the classroom) and two technology tools (iPods and student response pads) to see how specific learning outcomes may be achieved and assessed in connection with the innovation. Participants will: experience a LEGO demonstration to achieve several management accounting learning outcomes and to provide the basis for a student assessment; consider the design and assessment process for an accounting internship program: experience iPod technology as an audio/video extension for learning and assessment of a managerial accounting topic; and use student response pads to assess their understanding of financial accounting questions using a student response system. Participants will leave the workshop with a handful of innovative ideas for classroom use and for curriculum redesign.

Presenters:
Cathleen S. Burns, University of Colorado-Boulder
Susan Crosson, Santa Fe Community College
Sherry K. Mills, New Mexico State University

Sponsor:
Government and Nonprofit Section

Note: CPE fields of study are in parentheses