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Easing into digital humanities in your teaching
Integrating the digital humanities into your classes needn’t be a complex affair, and it certainly does not require reconceiving yourself as a “digital humanities scholar.” Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog Pick up something practical. Easing into Digital Humanities in Your Teaching July 12, 2024 • Paul Vierthaler Integrating the digital humanities into your classes needn’t be a complex affair, and it...
Virtual Reality for Student Engagement
“Whoa!” That’s the sound I love to hear in the classroom. And I hear it every time I partner with an instructor on a virtual reality exploration in one of their courses. Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog Pick up something practical. Virtual Reality for Student Engagement July 8, 2024 • Mike Blum “Whoa!” That’s the sound I love to hear in the classroom. And I hear it every time I partner with an...
Integrating Teaching and Research: Make it Simple
It sometimes feels like our teaching and research goals compete for our time and energy. We all want to offer undergraduates more opportunities for hands-on research experiences, but we might not have the time or flexibility to develop a research-oriented course. However, integrating hands-on, meaningful research experiences doesn’t have to be complicated . Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog Pick up...
Scaffolding Success: The Instructor’s Role in Facilitating Online Discussions
Learning is often described as a social process that requires regular and substantive interactions. Thus, when learning occurs in a location at a distance from one’s peers and instructor through a computer-mediated experience, the course must still be facilitated in a way that creates and fosters socialization. Drive-Thru Pedagogy Blog Pick up something practical. Scaffolding Success: The...
Six Essentials for Online Group Assignments
Learning is often enhanced when it is collaborative and social. Incorporating group assignments into your course is one way to increase student collaboration. However, group assignments can be difficult to facilitate, especially in an online course where you and your students are physically separated from one another. Despite these challenges, online courses rich in student interactivity...
Active Listening to Enhance Class Discussion
Have you ever had a class discussion filled with good ideas that still felt monotonous? A moment when a student repeats, without seeming to realize it, an idea someone already shared in class? Is it important for you to move toward higher order thinking in class discussion? Consider active listening: how students intentionally engage with classmates when they are not talking or presenting. The...
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