Active Learning
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Dennis Sun’s mission to make statistics more relatable
The incoming data science program director uses beach balls, taste tests, and other unlikely teaching tools to make introductory courses relevant for students across majors.
July 02, 2024
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Student-curated exhibit from Introduction to Museum Practice course
Students gained hands-on experience curating an exhibit on West Mexican ceramics.
June 28, 2024
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Ed course on curriculum construction partners with community
Students craft curricula for local organizations
June 19, 2024
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Leading Discussions in the Humanities & Social Sciences for TAs
Strategies to encourage student participation in discussion sections in the humanities and social sciences.
October 10, 2023
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Strategies for Leading Sections in Science and Engineering for TAs
Designing and executing sections that effectively complement lecture content and help your students achieve mastery of the course learning goals.
September 12, 2023
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Writing to Engage
Design low-stakes, ungraded, and creative writing prompts and activities to improve student engagement with and understanding of course readings and other materials.
July 18, 2023
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Student experiential learning on advance equipment: spectrometry, DNA sequencing, nanofabrication, and more
Stanford Report on course grants for working with University's core facilities
June 05, 2023
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Teaching Stanford's history
Description of Education 147: Stanford and Its Worlds, 1885–Present from Stanford Report
May 31, 2023
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Furniture and tech upgrades are transforming classrooms and learning
Stanford Report gives updates on the Stanford Classrooms Reimagined initiative.
May 05, 2023
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Small group activities
These activities can help structure small group learning in person and online.
September 18, 2021
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Best ways to use Slack for teaching
These recommendations will help you determine if Slack is the right tool for your situation (Part 1 of 3)
July 12, 2021
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Promoting Student Metacognition
Teach students how to use any learning activity or assessment to identify their own learning gaps and improve their study strategies.
June 07, 2021
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How do you create a hands-on laboratory class in an online world?
In the era of COVID-19, a team of chemical engineering educators rethink a capstone lab class for seniors.
May 11, 2021
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Learning to enrich face-to-face instruction
How Online/Pandemic Teaching Practices Can Enrich Face-to-Face Instruction
May 11, 2021
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November 13, 2020
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Live polling
Polling can be a versatile strategy for active and engaging learning.
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