Faculty’s Role in Supporting Student Agency through Voice, Choice, and OwnershipStudent 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...
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Bright IDEAS for Teaching December Webinar: Establishing Presence to Enhance the Educational Experience
Establishing Presence to Enhance the Educational Experience Three key elements work together to impact a student's educational experience: Social Presence, Teaching Presence, and Cognitive Presence. Research has consistently demonstrated the intersection of these...
Collaborative Learning
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...
Metacognitive Strategies
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....
Bright IDEAS for Teaching November Webinar: Alignment
Alignment: Journey to Student Learning "Assessments should reveal how well students have learned what we want them to learn while instruction ensures that they learn it. For this to occur, assessments, learning objectives, and instructional strategies need to be...
Are Your Students Ready for Feedback?
"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 general...