by Karen Walker | Jan 31, 2023 | Learning Series
Faculty’s Role in Supporting Student Agency through Voice, Choice, and Ownership Student success in higher education often depends on their ability to reflect, learn from feedback, apply theory, and incorporate deliberate practice to improve their skills, as discussed...
by Nancy Munce | Dec 1, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Day 2 Session 2: Collaborative Learning Research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning. In this second day of workshops for Summer Institute 2022, participants had...
by Nancy Munce | Nov 8, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Session 3: Metacognitive Strategies To become self-directed learners, students must learn to assess the demands of the task, evaluate their own knowledge and skills, plan their approach, monitor their progress, and adjust their strategies as needed....
by Karen Walker | Oct 22, 2022 | Learning Series
“For feedback to have maximum effect, students have to be expected to use it to improve their work and, in many cases, taught how to do so.” –Saphier et al (2008) Feedback is an essential part of teaching and learning, and we’re all familiar with the...
by Duke Lorr | Aug 23, 2022 | Academic Technologies, Delivering Courses, Designing Courses, Learning Series, Professional Development, Summer Institute
Summer Institute Session 2: Worked Examples “A worked example is a step-by-step demonstration of how to perform a task or how to solve a problem” (Clark, Nguyen, Sweller, 2006, p. 190). In the second session of the inaugural day for Summer Institute...
