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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. These practical techniques will develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities by creating intentional opportunities to enhance social and communication skills.

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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. These practical techniques will develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities by creating intentional opportunities to enhance social and communication skills.

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Beyond the bookshelves: 3 ways school libraries have evolved to meet students’ needs

eSchool News

Once simply a quiet space to check out books, libraries have evolved to provide students with a holistic and interactive learning experience. Traditional beige, rigid layouts with rows of bookshelves and tables have given way to open, adaptable spaces that accommodate group work, discussions and various learning activities.

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

Edsurge

But some institutions are gaining traction using a novel approach: leveraging the expertise of facilities and information technology staff to support the redesign of classroom learning experiences. Now, pods for group work circle monitors connected to a video wall. Collaborative Learning Studio at Indiana University. “A

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020. Thomas School Dedicates Space to Bolster STEM Learning. Need advice for starting a #K12 #STEM learning lab? Click here.

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

Edsurge

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.

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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.