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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

Meaningful learning tasks are transformative and deep, and rooted in three key elements: emotional connection, sense, and significance (Barkley, 2010): Emotional connection. Consequently, while we forget most life experiences, we can remember the best and (even more) the worst things that have happened to us. What a waste!

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. Immersion experiences are integral components. Dreamline Pathways A.T.

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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

I thought, what with high rates of inflation, a depressed stock market, and lots of reports of crime, the Democratic party was about to face a red wave. ” Our hunches, instincts, and gut feelings often lead us astray. Why, then, should my thoughts about the future of higher education be any more accurate? Wrong again.

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SJSU Public-Private Partnerships Boost Enrollment and Community Relationships: Changing Higher Ed 193 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson

The Change Leader, Inc.

6 February · Episode 193 SJSU Public-Private Partnerships Boost Enrollment and Community Relationships 35 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton President Teniente-Matson shares insights on utilizing public-private partnerships to develop meaningful student, community, and brand experiences.

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Why Can’t Your Real-World Project Live in the Real World?

Faculty Focus

As educators teaching in professional studies programs, our aim is to create classroom experiences where our students can work with professional partners, developing projects that have impact in the real world. We believe implementation is a salient part of the professional studies experience.

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The Censored and the Curious: Using Banned Books to Foster Connections and Critical Thinking in Freshmen

Faculty Focus

Many colleges and universities around the country offer First-Year Seminars (FYS) or First-Year Experiences (FYE). Below are some lessons I learned in the creation and execution of a First-Year Experience. Offer choice and connections One of the beneficial experiences in our First-Year Seminar was the book clubs.

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Generative AI and the Near Future of Work: An EdTech Example

eLiterate

It was the same old problem of a standard not quite getting true interoperability because people implement it differently. Generative AI probably will change EdTech integration, interoperability, and the impact that interoperability standards can have on learning design. It probably only works about 40% of the time.”