Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 4, 2023

Have students browse notable historical photographs associated with women’s rights movements, choose one photo, and recreate that photo with their own set, props, costumes, and models. Compile the photos and descriptions into a gallery and invite community members to view student work. But what about those less infamous women?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Some use content to teach skills, such as the Sociology department’s research training course, Designing and Doing Social Research which I organise. Content-independent learning implies a different direction, where students and teachers work from their skills towards content. The book introduces students to sociological ideas.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 9, 2025

It helps students become problem-solvers, researchers, and doers rather than passive receivers of information. Inquiry-Based Learning: Teaching Students How to Learn Education is undergoing a major shift—from passive, teacher-led instruction to active, student-driven exploration. They were slimy and kind of oily.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

This is especially true in higher education, where AI, even at this early stage, has the ability to upend many of the ways we teach, research and learn. AI is already serving as a research tool, a writing tool and a coding tool. Our students are using ChatGPT to draft, brainstorm and find answers to questions.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 11, 2018

Some see the benefits of augmentation extending to the subject of last week’s post on lectures , with further benefits to student development and accessibility: One of the things that I think that will happen is there will be a massive uptake in the use of augmented reality. We are a university that researches, but we also teach.”

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 27, 2024

For the same problem, with the power of e-learning, students will solve using different ways. All the required data for a student to study will be available within their palm with the power of the cloud - and no more carrying heavy books. When you study you need to evaluate yourself.

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Parchment

APRIL 1, 2024

If you couldn’t attend the webinar, DEEP Dive: Achieving the Potential of Dual Enrollment , here are some highlights from the research presented by the Community College Research Center. High school students taking college courses through dual-enrollment programs has grown significantly in recent years.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 14, 2024

I also like to have a couple of smaller tables where students can get feedback from small groups of students rather than the whole class. ​ PBL Research Materials Many would include “sustained inquiry” in the definition of project-based learning. My students love live tutorials, classes, and webinars.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 8, 2024

Sure, your students can do some worksheets on career exploration, read some articles, and do a little surface-level research. You don’t need to know if it is a good idea or a bad one for your students to dig in more. My students take a project-based learning approach to this interest-based career exploration activity.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JANUARY 13, 2025

Essentially, my students develop their own experiential learning activities related to black history, compile it in a folder, on a website, in a booklet, or some other format to be shared with teachers to use with their own young students. Use these as inspiration to write your own driving questions tailored to your needs.

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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Part of combating these deeply ingrained notions is research, such as the Eight Year Study. I love the book The Experiential Educator by Alice Y. They are both influential theorists in the experiential learning movement, and this book really helps clarify and iron out the purpose for and benefits of experiential learning.

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Kay Peterson

MAY 13, 2022

Harvard professor Amy Edmondson describes her research on “teaming” in her classic book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy. A key element of her design process is how the students develop team trust over time.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 31, 2023

. ​Students explore careers of interest, research the logistics that come with those careers, design and lead their own community action projects around issues relevant to a career of interest, develop 21st-century skills, and build a stunning and robust career portfolio to showcase these learning experiences.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

Nina herself (along with Hazel Christie, from IAD) has researched the use of blogs in teaching and learning as part of a PTAS grant and has recorded a podcast episode for our mini-series (released today). Dr Simon Riley is using it in part of the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) project. Look out for it!

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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 14, 2024

When I say project-based learning "works for" all learners, what I mean is that project-based learning effectively promotes deeper learning of content, independent thinking, and the development of 21st-century skills for all. The difference is in how each student develops the skills and knowledge.

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eLiterate

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If I had a professor who had (in my judgment) given me a coloring book and was going to grade me on whether I colored inside the lines, that triggered my worst adolescent self. I’ve conducted a fair few focus groups with students over the years. But that only worked when the professor would understand and appreciate the joke.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

Student Tutor of the Year: Rosie Wu, Edinburgh College of Art (Photo credit: EUSA) This year, our Student Tutor of the Year is Rosie Wu. Based in the Edinburgh College of Art, Rosie’s teaching focuses on children’s picture books.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Beginnings of Co-Curricular Research (1950s): By 1950, collecting questionnaire data on student activities and feedback was under way at the secondary level (Tompkins, 1950). Much like assessment today, the purpose of this work was to establish baseline participation rates and initiate new programs based on student feedback.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 29, 2023

This idea here is that students develop some kind of production such as a skit, play, documentary, music concert, etc. I have also had students organize their own walks. Some of my students read a book for their book club called "Am I Blue?", which inspired them to organize a walk.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I'm Tara Zirkel, Director of Strategic Research with a focus on community colleges here at EAB. And I'm thrilled to introduce Dr. Heather Speed, who serves vice president of Student Services at Pueblo Community College. Give these folks to listen and enjoy. Tara Zirkel: Hi everyone, and welcome to Office Hours with EAB.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. In The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses, Blake R.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

“I think it highlights, for me, that many of the problems we face on college campuses are due to loud voices that are not necessarily representing how most students think.” ” Outside of universities, some organizations and researchers have also begun looking into potential solutions to campus speech intolerance.

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