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 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 →“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 […]
Continue reading →What is your role as engineering faculty? What steps do you take to ensure your students achieve your course outcomes? And oh, by the way, what are outcomes… Creating a course to achieve specific outcomes requires effort in three domains: (Felder and Brent, 2003) Identifying course content and defining measurable learning objectives Selecting and implementing methods […]
Continue reading →While some courses are a natural choice for EPIC, we occasionally come across a course that did not start as such but where an idea to incorporate project-based learning paid off and led to unforgettable experience.
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