Promoting an active classroom doesn’t require a lot of major changes to your current teaching style. What it does require is incorporating simple engagement techniques that get your students up, moving, and interacting with your classroom content. “Students generally have difficulty connecting abstract knowledge with real-life applications” (Glaser & Struss, 1967). Providing your students with […]
Continue reading →Congratulations June Course Development at Wentworth cohort: Hajar Jafferji Joe Martel-Foley Michael Mozill David Simpson Charlie Pham Marisha Rawlins Building a new course? Redesigning an older course? Want to align program and course goals to assessments and teaching strategies? Then Course Development Institute is for you! Use proven methods to increase engagement […]
Continue reading →The First Year Engineering Program is undergoing a major course redesign to include 21st century knowledge and skills which are needed to meet the needs of the future job force are changing at an incredible rate. Design Thinking, while not a new concept, is moving its way into the engineering realm. What is Design Thinking? […]
Continue reading →Looking for training that fits your schedule? Check out the LIT event calendar! October is especially busy. Please find the upcoming offerings below with information and registration links. VoiceThread and Storytelling – Tuesday, October 2, 7:00pm Most cognitive scientists agree that storytelling is a great way to help your message stick in the minds of an audience. Our minds […]
Continue reading →What are the benefits of Respondus? Respondus is a great tool to use for creating more in-depth exams for your courses and allows you to save them to build an exam library. It will transfer your questions/pools to Blackboard and it can tie to publisher content. Exams can be also be created offline using Windows. It supports up […]
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