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Mark your calendar. The eighth edition of the Rutgers Active Learning Symposium will be held on Thursday May 22. This year's keynote guest will be Allison Posey. Allison earned a degree in Mind, Brain, and Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the author of Engage the Brain (ASCD, 2018) and Unlearning (Cast, Inc., 2020). Allison will help us explore what is known about the brain and apply it to the design of leaning experiences. A morning lecture will be followed by an interactive workshop in which…
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. …
In preparation for the fall semester, DCS's Technical Services & Operations Team updated twenty-five classrooms with new equipment and features.Our staff attempts to revisit each of our classrooms every six-years to replace aging equipment, add new features, and remove outdated equipment that has fallen out of use. This summer, among other improvements, we replaced projectors and computer and added new USB-C ports that can be used to access files. Because our usage statistics indicate that they were used infrequently, we have removed VGA…
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…