Ensuring Transparency in Authentic Assessment Design
Authentic assessment allows faculty to scaffold student learning in a course by tapping into a student’s prior knowledge of a subject and building upon that knowledge through real-world applications of the concepts and theories presented in a course. Beginning in...
The Digital Career Toolbox Meets the Design Thinking Process
Design Thinking is an interdisciplinary concept where designers bring innovative ideas and products to fruition by “[integrating] the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for success” (IDEO). This human-centered approach is the basis...
Learning to Learn
For most of us, traveling to a new destination involves typing an address into a GPS and then trusting it to tell us our every turn. That’s what I did the last time I went somewhere new, but when I arrived I couldn’t tell you how I had got there. Sure, I arrived...
A Wrinkle in Class Time, Part 1
Detail from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. CC BY-SA 3.0. Why Talk About Time? How much time should students spend working in your course? The poet William Blake wrote, “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”...
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work…With Some Help Along the Way
“Group projects make me understand why Batman works alone.” – Anonymous It’s no secret that students are often less than enthused about working with their classmates. We’ve all heard the horror stories: the group member that never shows up, the domineering...Subscribe by Email
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