DCS News
On May 14th, faculty and staff from across Rutgers gathered in Richard Weeks Hall for the 7th Rutgers Active Learning Symposium. Through workshops, presentations, and panel sessions - participants shared their experience utilizing, studying, and supporting various exciting teaching methods. Keynote guest Cate Denial shared insights from her forthcoming book "A Pedagogy of Kindness." Perhaps most importantly, attendees took a break from the typical grind to reflect, absorb, and discuss active learning.Whether you attended or not, visit the…
Practitioners of active learning at Rutgers and beyond will soon convene to discuss, share, and celebrate all things active learning. The 2024 Rutgers Active Learning Symposium is set to take place on Tuesday May 14th from 8:30am-4:15pm in Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering. In addition to seventeen different sessions driven by Rutgers faculty and staff, this year's Symposium will feature our guest keynote…
As teaching technology is constantly evolving, DCS always has it's finger on the pulse of emerging trends to ensure we are providing the most useful tools to our instructors. Our staff researches new technology and tests out the most promising. If we think a particular tool might warrant inclusion in our classrooms, we often pilot them in select spaces to learn more about their viability. This semester we began piloting two new technologies in Rutgers-New Brunswick classrooms: interactive displays and USB-C.…
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…
