November 19, 2024 – Show and Tell: Lessons from Design Rich Assignments
PowerPoint and other slideware apps are arguably the most used, and perhaps most important, learning and teaching technologies of the past thirty-five years in higher ed. Let’s look at five…
Sept 24, 2024 – Summer Research Groups in the Humanities
Recently the Humanities Center and EthIC have piloted group Student Research Partnerships (group SRPs), each consisting of one faculty member working with four or five student researchers. This session will…
October 3, 2023 – Funding Experiential Education
Experiential education encompasses internships, fellowships, research, and independent exploration. Students often ask faculty and staff for guidance on what they can do and how to fund their experiences. This session…
Sept 27, 2022 – A “Liberal Arts Laboratory”: Teaching with Archives, Maps, and Rare Books
Working with Gould Library’s unique physical collections of archives, rare books, artists’ books, and print maps provide students with hands-on, active learning opportunities. This session will highlight creative approaches to…
May 10, 2022 – Career Center Collaborations
Students often approach faculty members looking for career advice. The Career Center offers to help out, but where do you start? What are your options? In this session, several faculty…
Jan 18, 2022: Evidence-based Strategies for Navigating a Polluted Information Environment
While education is often framed as a necessary bulwark against the threat of misinformation, a mounting body of evidence shows that common approaches to teaching media literacy and critical thinking are…
Feb 2, 2021: Annotated Bibliographies as a Way to Map the Scholarly Conversation
Annotated bibliographies are deceptively simple, but they come in many forms, fulfill many functions, and work towards varying goals. Some annotated bibliography assignments are meant to help students begin the…
Jan 21, 2020: Teaching With Census Data: Experiences Across Campus
Census 2020 is almost underway, and in this timely session faculty panelists will share experiences of teaching students how to use census data to support learning and research. Faculty will…
Oct. 22, 2019: Feedback and Assessment in Collaborative Projects with Students
Student collaborations with faculty and/or community partners provide unique venues for students (and faculty) to develop a variety of skills beyond those they cultivate in traditional curricular and research work.…
Jan. 16, 2018: Inside/Outside the Binary: Teaching the Politics of Data
At Occidental, we are experimenting with the integration of quantitative reasoning into courses outside of STEM. Guided by this programmatic interest, this presentation zooms in on the design process for…
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