by Coulter Faculty Commons | Sep 5, 2019 | active learning, Engage, gamification, Learn, student engagement
The Hunter Library VR room serves as a place for you and your students to explore virtual reality. Before making an assignment, lab exercise, or project that requires students to use the library’s VR room, it will be helpful to know the following: 1) Contact the VR...
by Terry Pollard | Sep 8, 2018 | active learning, Blog, cooperative learning, Engage, Help Your Students, Learn
A summer 2018 volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning focuses on student engagement. Ten chapters worth! One interesting chapter, Students Engaged in Learning, is worth a close read. (the link to the full article can be found at the bottom of this post)....
by Terry Pollard | Aug 22, 2018 | active learning, Blog, Faculty Development Workshop, Help Your Students, Learn
On August 10, the Coulter Faculty Commons offered an interactive workshop for new faculty at the annual New Faculty Orientation, coordinated through the Office of the Provost. The session, which included a look back at syllabi from the early 1990s, in addition to...
by Terry Pollard | Jul 24, 2018 | active learning, Blog, Engage, note-taking
A 2014 study by Mueller and Oppenheimer indicated that students who took notes in class with their computer performed more poorly than students who took notes by hand. 67 students participated in the research study, and students were asked to use their typical...
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