Rice to host biennial De Lange Conference

More than a dozen of the country’s leading education experts will meet at Rice University Oct. 13-14 for the biennial De Lange Conference, “Teaching in the University of Tomorrow.”

The event is a forward-looking forum designed to contemplate the rapidly evolving changes in university teaching in response to disruptive technologies and global forces and will feature renowned educators and innovators from a variety of disciplines presenting lectures and teaching demonstrations and participating in discussions and interactive workshops.

“Next month’s De Lange Conference brings together some of the top visionaries who are thinking about how technology enables and even demands new ways of teaching in the university,” said Susan McIntosh, professor of anthropology at Rice and director of Scientia, the conference organizer. “It also provides multiple breakout sessions where teachers and students can experience learning with masters of particular teaching techniques, both traditional and technology-based, and offers some of the latest research on effective teaching and learning. If we are going to be making decisions about how we will incorporate technology and digital education into a Rice education in future years, this conference is a great way to become well-informed about the issues!”

Rice students, faculty and staff are invited to attend in person or via webcast to hear the questions, concerns, hopes, visions and strategies of a pre-eminent group of current or former presidents from Rice University, Columbia University, Rutgers University and Princeton University, the contributing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the presidents of ITHAKA/JSTOR and edX, the co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera and more. Registration for Rice faculty, staff and students is $10, and registration for the public is $35. The deadline for registration is Sept. 29.

The biennial De Lange Conferences, funded by the De Lange Endowment, were established by C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth in honor of Demaris’ parents, Albert and Demaris De Lange.

Information on the program, speakers and registration is available at http://delange.rice.edu/.