The panel brings LIS and CS educators involved in teaching “information retrieval” to discuss experiential learning approaches to teaching IR. Efthimiadis (UW) will be presenting the IR-Toolbox, an interactive system developed for teaching IR processes to Information School students. Ray Larson (UCB) will be discussing his approach of using open source IR engines to create a mini-TREC competition environment in class. Jamie Callan (CMU) will be talking about the Lemur Toolkit system and its use in teaching undergraduate and graduate students. 
