DCS News
We are very happy to announce a pair of upcoming events for faculty and staff interested in active learning. These sessions offer a chance to explore collaborative teaching methods that seek to increase student engagement with content and one another. Active Learning 101 is a half-day entry point into active learning techniques. Meanwhile, Active Learning Online 101 provides a foundation for injecting engagement into both synchronous and asynchronous online environments. For more information on a particular event and to register, please click on a link below. …
This summer, DCS continued working to ensure our classroom technology is up-to-date and reflective of the evolving needs of Rutgers-New Brunswick faculty. The annual "evergreening" undertaken by our Technical Services & Operations team helps keep rooms state-of-the-art, cycle out old equipment before it reaches end-of-life, and introduce new features to facilitate new teaching approaches.
Since launching the Digital Classroom Podium Project in 2012, we have designed six…
We are very happy to announce a pair of upcoming events for faculty and staff interested in active learning. These sessions offer a chance to explore collaborative teaching methods that seek to increase student engagement with content and one another. Active Learning 101 is a half-day entry point into active learning techniques. Meanwhile, Active Learning Online 101 provides a foundation for injecting engagement into both synchronous and asynchronous online environments. For more information on a particular event and to register, please click on a link below. …
Now that another Rutgers Active Learning Symposium is in the books, head over to the RALS page for a summary of the day's various sessions. Whether you joined us on May 18th or not, you can explore further and access slides and other resources from each session by becoming a member of the Active Learning Community and visiting the ALC Canvas page.
For this year's Take Your Child to Work Day, DCS welcomed some brand new Jr. Support Specialists to Rutgers. Children of DCS employees ranging in age from five to twelve were on campus to learn about how universities work, including how their parents maintain their classrooms' technology. It wasn't all technology though. Our Junior Support Specialists also learned about dinosaurs at the Geology Museum and played with exhibits at the Math and Science Learning Center. Finally, the kids of DCS also helped us keep an eye on…