by Ashley Dickson | Feb 24, 2023 | Learning Series
Community Building in Virtual Spaces A community is a supportive social group in which members feel a sense of belonging and share a common interest, experience, or goals (Berry, 2017; Brown, 2001; McMillan & Chavis, 1986; Rovai, 2003). In a busy, over-scheduled...
by Nancy Munce | Dec 1, 2022 | Summer Institute
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...
by Nancy Munce | Nov 8, 2022 | Summer Institute
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....
by John Furr | Aug 23, 2022 | Academic Technologies, Delivering Courses, Designing Courses, Learning Series, Professional Development, Summer Institute
Summer Institute Session 2: Worked Examples “A worked example is a step-by-step demonstration of how to perform a task or how to solve a problem” (Clark, Nguyen, Sweller, 2006, p. 190). In the second session of the inaugural day for Summer Institute...
by Ashley Dickson | Aug 19, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Day 3 Session 1: Multiple Exposures “Forgetting is a feature, not a bug.” – Popov, Marevic, Rummel, & Reder, 2019 3 Strategies for Helping Students Remember What They Learn We often think of forgetting as a failure in memory, but...
