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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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Consider Group and Team-based activities such as Team-based learning [(TBL), Vanderbilt, 2013] where small groups compete and master complex content in a safe, non-judgmental environment (e.g., Learning science principles for instructors. CBE – Life Sciences Education, 13 : 453-468. CEI (2022).

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A New Architecture for the University Campus of the Future

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Bryant University, a private university located in Smithfield, Rhode Island with academic programs that integrate business and the arts and sciences with a global perspective, offers a glimpse of what the future of campus design could look like. Classrooms and lecture halls may, over time, fade away and become relics of our educational past.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

Faculty Focus

Consider Group and Team-based activities such as Team-based learning [(TBL), Vanderbilt, 2013] where small groups compete and master complex content in a safe, non-judgmental environment (e.g., Learning science principles for instructors. CBE – Life Sciences Education, 13 : 453-468. CEI (2022).

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Assignments with Significance

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Not only did the students grow in the desired skills in Bible interpretation and lesson planning, they also learned about working collaboratively for a joint goal, as well as growing in their ability to lead discussion. Enhancing Social Work Education Through Team-Based Learning. Plant Physiology (Rasmussen). Gleadow, R.,

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How Colleges Are Thinking Differently to Serve Adult Students

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But it sounds like that's not necessarily the case, and the peer-to-peer learning is also important for a more mature population, too. It's our responsibility as educators to create opportunities for people to work in teams and to do them in effective ways. Those full loads are really tough. And I try to encourage them.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

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Simonson conducts research in exercise and environmental physiology as well as in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has worked in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University for nearly a decade as a project manager and more recently as a program coordinator. References Brookfield, Stephen.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

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Simonson conducts research in exercise and environmental physiology as well as in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has worked in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University for nearly a decade as a project manager and more recently as a program coordinator. References Brookfield, Stephen.

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