I wanted students to give constructive evaluations of their peers. Without grades attached, the process wouldn’t gain any momentum, but attaching grades to peer evaluations …
Issue 5
Developing Student Skills using Design Thinking
I was a participant in the yearlong Design Thinking for Educators Program launched by CLT in January 2019. This involved participation in a series of bootcamps and workshops which introduced the participants to the Design Thinking process
Academic Integration of Design Thinking: Innovative Pedagogies in Action
What is Design Thinking? Design Thinking is a process that starts with discovery and ends with a user-centered offering that solves one of the user’s …
Mapping it Out: Quantitative Reasoning within a Project-Based Learning Context
Quantitative Reasoning (QR) combines critical thinking with mathematical competence to examine vast amounts of data within a real-world context (Elrod, 2014). Numerous clarion calls to …
Driven Visual Communication A Data Literacy Framework
Advances in information and communication technologies have created a surge of interest in data literacy visualization courses for their potential to help students critically interrogate, …
Provost’s Teaching Enhancement Initiative
“We will need to incentivize, train and reward faculty to teach in novel ways” AUC Strategic Plan, 2014-19 As part of his Academic Strategic Priorities …