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6 Key Principles That Make Finnish Education a Success

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Multidisciplinary Learning Each academic year, every school must have at least one clearly defined theme, project or course that combines the content of different subjects and deals with the selected theme from the perspective of several subjects. These are called multidisciplinary learning modules.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Another recent graduate, a talented, multidisciplinary artist, was recently featured in one of the most prominent art spaces in the city — and is currently publishing his first magazine. These questions are at the forefront of my mind, questions that I wish more of us educators could spend time discussing and planning around.

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5 High-Presence Teaching Tactics for Active Online Learning

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Within the Purdue Globals Math Department within the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies, many innovative and inspiring ideas are combined with active learning tactics to promote high-presence teaching in the online classroom. checklists, calendars, exit polls, or pulse check quizzes.) Let the fun begin!

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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

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So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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How One Professor Uses Podcasts to Teach Empathy and Social Justice

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Since then, Calarco has shared an episode of This American Life to inspire discussion on the sociological imagination and ”how thinking like a sociologist means stepping outside our own bubbles.” She uses class discussions to help students see that social problems are not about individuals making bad choices.

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5 High-Presence Teaching Tactics for Active Online Learning

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Within the Purdue Globals Math Department within the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies, many innovative and inspiring ideas are combined with active learning tactics to promote high-presence teaching in the online classroom. checklists, calendars, exit polls, or pulse check quizzes.) Let the fun begin!

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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The collected data from students can be used to start a discussion. Sources of students’ anxiety in a multidisciplinary social statistics course. It’s a good recommendation because teachers can respond better if they know what they’re dealing with. References: Condron, D. Becker, J. and Bzhetaj, L. Teaching Sociology, 46 (4), 346-355.

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