Dr. Karl Wirth teaches in the Geology Department at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, and was appointed Associate Director of the Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching in 2007. As co-leader of a campus committee on course evaluation, he helped guide the process that brought the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction system to Macalester. He offers regular workshops to help faculty implement IDEA in their courses, interpret the summary reports, and improve their teaching. He is currently involved in several research projects on teaching and learning and has given numerous local, national, and international workshops on active learning pedagogies, critical thinking, learning management systems, rubrics, assessment, metacognition, and the role of student affect in learning. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1990.
email: wirth@macalester.edu
phone: 651-696-6449
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