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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

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Purposeful Application to Teamwork A practical and successful strategy is to design performance tasks using cooperative learning structures deliberately. Aside from promoting positive interdependence and individual accountability, students participate equally through simultaneous interactions.

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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

Purposeful Application to Teamwork A practical and successful strategy is to design performance tasks using cooperative learning structures deliberately. Aside from promoting positive interdependence and individual accountability, students participate equally through simultaneous interactions.

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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

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Form follows function, as the adage says, but these universities are flipping that script and betting that a more flexible and adaptive form will unlock needed changes in the teaching and learning function. Now, pods for group work circle monitors connected to a video wall. Collaborative Learning Studio at Indiana University.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

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Specifically, the implementation of in-class clickers and out-of-class quizzing within the context of think-pair-share (TPS) will be the fulcrum of this article’s approach to integrating active learning within a lecture framework. Depending on the classroom setup, group work can also be chaotic and auditorily overwhelming.

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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

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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. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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Running a Workshop: Guidelines for Engagement and Impact

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A genuine workshop aims to empower the participants such that they leave with new ideas and skills. What follows are some suggested principles we have prepared for workshop facilitators that move beyond a talkfest to genuine learning. Principle 1: Come early and “own” the learning space.

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Running a Workshop: Guidelines for Engagement and Impact

Faculty Focus

A genuine workshop aims to empower the participants such that they leave with new ideas and skills. What follows are some suggested principles we have prepared for workshop facilitators that move beyond a talkfest to genuine learning. Principle 1: Come early and “own” the learning space.