Are you incorporating collaboration in your classes? Are your students actually working together in a team? What structures work well in guiding teams? In “Teaching Collaboration: scaffolding teamwork”, Jonathan Ferguson exposed the core strategies for teaching collaboration in teams that The Game Studio uses in their Production Classes. Jonathan offers examples of how teams manage […]

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Jonathan Ferguson presents Teaching Collaboration: Scaffolding Teamwork

Podcast from Warren Baker’s Presentation People need to be taught the process of working with others before they can produce a product that boosts productivity, feeds innovation and drives profitability. When a team fails to cohere, it’s often because its members lack the skillset of how to be on a team without feeling that their […]

Warren Baker presents: Team Does Have an “I” in It, After all.

Academic freedom is the corner-stone of our profession, and essential to creating a rich academic environment for our students. Creating a master course through a collaborative process on first glance seems like it would be the exact opposite of academic freedom. However, through this discussion, I will share how the collaborative academic process used to […]

Amanda Crispel Presents: The Advantages of Collaborative, Master Course Creation and Execution

Teams are frequently used in class projects as a way to facilitate peer to peer learning and to encourage the development of important personal and professional skills. In order to maximize the effectiveness of student teams, teams should be deliberately assigned and regularly evaluated. This session will introduce techniques for assigning students to teams and […]

Kylie King presents: Assigning Teams and Early Indicators of Team Success

Craig Pepin – Competency Based Education

How and where can programs carve out the space for students to connect and integrate? Graphic Design’s Sophomore Year Review offers one possible model.  This review at the midpoint of a student’s college education brings together all program faculty and students to examine student work, their special aptitudes and challenges, and to plan for the […]

Adventures in Integrative Pedagogy – Episode 6 – Connecting Learning through a Sophomore Year Review

Many students find science challenging or intimidating.  Targeted and careful use of analogies can make science more accessible, especially to non-majors.  Kathy Seiler and special guest, Jane Huggins of Stockton University, present on how analogies drawn from daily life and the arts can be used effectively to help students connect the dots with complex scientific topics.

Adventures in Integrative Pedagogy – Episode 5 – Analogies in Pedagogy

Kelly Faughnan and Bjarne Holmes discuss how they have embedded the College Competencies into The Learning Curve, a new required course for freshman.

Adventures in Integrative Pedagogy – Episode 4 – Psychology, The Learning Curve

Faith Yacubian discusses the design of the EHS Signature Courses.

Adventures in Integrative Pedagogy – Episode 3 – EHS Signature Courses

Gary Scudder and Steve Wehmeyer discuss their experience running travel courses.

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