Building a new course? Redesigning an older course? Want to align program and course goals to assessments and teaching strategies?Use proven methods to increase engagement and student outcomes by attending the 3-day Course Development Summer Institute in June 2018. LIT will customize the 3-day schedule based on your schedule. Seats are limited so email lit@wit.edu to enroll. […]
Continue reading →The LIT Advisory Committee is hard at work! Several working groups are focused on fine tuning our academic technology toolkit going into the next fiscal budget cycle. Here are a few updates. Video at Wentworth: The group assessed several vendors and are selecting a few to come to campus for demonstrations. This work is informed […]
Continue reading →The 21st century replacement for pen and paper is finely here – the tablet. University are developing software and teaching methods that take advantage of the tablet PC’s unique capabilities. Tablets in teaching is not new. It’s caught on in the medical professions where doctors use them to take notes and update patient charts. But […]
Continue reading →Jim Lang shared small, powerful changes you can make in your teaching that are grounded in learning sciences during a lunch and workshop (in person and virtual) on November 16th at Wentworth. Access a recording of the “Small Teaching Workshop” and take a brief feedback survey to share your feedback and ideas for future topics and […]
Continue reading →“There are many challenges in higher education environments, particularly engineering education in a multicultural society. Some of these include the effective communication of difficult mathematical concepts maintaining students’ attention span, the difficulties of catering for individual student needs in a large classroom environment, different paces of student learning, and lack of fluency in written English […]
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