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Faculty Focus
JULY 17, 2025
This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. True interdisciplinary teaching goes beyond just putting different topics side by side. This takes careful planning, a willingness to step outside your comfort zone, and a focus on working together.
Faculty Focus
JULY 17, 2025
This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. True interdisciplinary teaching goes beyond just putting different topics side by side. This takes careful planning, a willingness to step outside your comfort zone, and a focus on working together.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 2, 2019
During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. But there has been progress, both with the tools themselves and the teaching practices we employ to incorporate technology into the classroom. How do we do that?
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Instead of just superheroes, she invites students to think about their own cultural icons and cultural representations, and use that to design a character. The student and professor both shared the story last week during a session on culturally-responsive teaching in online courses at the 2017 OLC Accelerate Conference, in Orlando.
Scholarly Teacher
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.
Edsurge
JULY 9, 2018
An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. The answer may be that we need to balance massiveness with miniaturization.
Edsurge
JULY 1, 2017
Case Western Reserve documented its first - and second -year efforts to add two active-learning spaces and support faculty teaching in the space. McGill University has developed Principles for Designing Teaching and Learning Spaces to instruct and encourage others who strive to teach well in redesigned spaces.
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