by Monica Cook | Nov 30, 2015 | active learning, pedagogy
As a SIF this year, I have felt like a fish out of water when engaging in social science and education research. I find that doing good, rigorous social science is more difficult than doing experimental physics in a lot of ways. When delivering social science surveys,...
by Monica Cook | Oct 1, 2015 | active learning, digital pedagogy, pedagogy
Active learning is popular in the education research community right now. According to the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, active learning is a “process whereby students engage in activities, such as reading, writing, discussion,...
by Valerie Robin | Sep 17, 2015 | Atlanta connections, digital pedagogy, pedagogy
Today I attended the first Digital Pedagogy Meetup (DigPed Meetup) of the 2015-2016 school year. Hosted, by The Atlanta Connected Learning collegial network of university faculty and staff in the Atlanta area, ATLCL hosts DigPed meetups one time a month which aims to...
by Wasfi Momen | Nov 23, 2014 | instructional videos, pedagogy
Hello fellow SIFers, I know people have been wondering for a way to make videos more…fun? Yeah that’s the word. Because I don’t think many people want to sit through a video of someone talking about an event or idea. You also don’t want to make...
by Anand Shah | Nov 23, 2014 | digital humanities, instructional videos, pedagogy, SIF Projects
Well these last few weeks have been busy, to say the least. Apart from working in CURVE, I have been catching up on my group project. Babacar, Nathan, and Valerie have filmed and added a few more professors to the long list of videos and questions that we have....
by Ameer | Nov 12, 2014 | digital pedagogy, pedagogy
I am currently working on the first video of the 2 this semester that is on the Digital Champions. These professors have outstanding teaching strategies where they incorporate technology into their curriculum. They teach Hybrid courses where some instruction is in the...
