Characteristics of Students Who Do Not Do Homework

Dr. Taimi Olsen is the associate director of the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and adjunct in the First Year Studies program and the UT English Department. At UT, she oversees staffing, web materials, workshop creation and delivery, and assessment procedures. She has led workshops on classroom management and teaching techniques in the Humanities and Foreign Languages, and University-wide workshops on service learning, visual learning, and—with Dr. Stan Guffey—HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) workshops on active learning in flexible classrooms. She coordinates University-wide workshops and institutes, such as the New Faculty Teaching Institute, The Summer Teaching Institute, university workshops on Assessment, Experiential Learning, and others. Through a grant opportunity, she published ”Engaging Students as Researchers through Internet Use” in The Academic Commons. With Drs. Schumann and Peters, she co-authored ”Co-Creation of Value through Teaching and Learning Centers” forthcoming in a New Directions volume.