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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

The fundamental question becomes: How can educators plan for and deliver instructional content that is relatable and meaningful? To enrich their classroom experience, I align cooperative learning structures with the lesson outcomes, ensuring that 21st-century, real-world content tasks are purposeful and authentic.

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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

The fundamental question becomes: How can educators plan for and deliver instructional content that is relatable and meaningful? To enrich their classroom experience, I align cooperative learning structures with the lesson outcomes, ensuring that 21st-century, real-world content tasks are purposeful and authentic.

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The future of learning spaces is open ended

eSchool News

What is the future of learning spaces? The spaces we inhabit have a profound effect on how we inhabit them. Space induces a particular way of feeling, of being. We look inside current learning spaces and look at the world; there is a big disconnect. These are the questions of an educational space designer.

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Outdoor classrooms should outlast COVID

eSchool News

This gave way to more movement, flexible group work, and games. My students were super engaged in learning. Even though our outdoor classroom was working, and I had over a decade of experience as an outdoor educator, I led us back inside. My students didn’t question it. Late fall arrived with cooler temperatures.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

Scholarly Teacher

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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Space Matters: Lessons Learned from an Active-Learning Classroom

Edsurge

Case Western Reserve documented its first - and second -year efforts to add two active-learning spaces and support faculty teaching in the space. Indiana University has a campus-wide Mosaic initiative to encourage and support active and collaborative learning in all classrooms. It’s still all about the people.

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#ICE18: Robert Dillon Explains the Pillars of Technology Integration

EdTech Magazine

That old adage sums up why it is so hard for educators, parents and communities to adopt new learning spaces and the pedagogies that go along with them. Over the past 20 years, Robert Dillon has been a huge advocate for experiential learning. EDTECH: How do you know what your class’s ideal learning space should look like?