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Student-to-Student Learning: Between the Creative and the Practical

After considering the listed pitfalls, I felt #5 left me with the most to learn and the most room for improvement. In an environment increasingly driven by meeting institutionalized learning outcomes, sometimes I wrestle with how to let go of … Continue reading

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Letting students with different backgrounds to learn from each other in a (hybrid) “integrated design” learning environment.

WSE 425/525 “Timber tectonics in the digital age” exposes students to integrated design practices, in which architects, engineers and fabricators are all engaged in the early design phases. In the actual practice, these different professional figures really learn from each … Continue reading

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Becoming “The Guide on the Side”: Centering Students in Hybrid Courses

As long as I’ve been a Spanish teacher (sixteen years now!) we as a profession have been talking about and moving toward student-centered, content-based, and task- or project-based teaching; language instructors have long since stopped seeing themselves as the proverbial … Continue reading

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Expanding Avenues for Student Choice

I love the idea of building in ways for students to make decisions about what they learn and how they learn it.  My experience is that being able to choose the path of their learning results in increased engagement. For … Continue reading

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Learning from our communities and each other in hybrid courses

So many of the common pitfalls are tied together. Understanding and fostering students learning from one another is a method of also avoiding the “sage on the stage” problem. I generally teach health systems classes. Each student comes to class … Continue reading

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Recognizing that students learn from each other

I would like to comment on Pitfall #5 – Ignore the way students learn from each other. I plan to avoid this pitfall by stepping back and allowing conversations to progress to without intervention, up to a point. I publish … Continue reading

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Potential pitfalls – Collaborative learning

A couple of caveats on top – I have a very hard time writing about learning concisely. I don’t have a computer right now and I am writing this on a tablet. So far, in my experience, WordPress on a … Continue reading

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