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What Works: Considering Pedagogies that Serve to Strengthen Student Learning

Reports

Evidence for the Efficacy of Student-Active Learning Pedagogies

Jeffrey E. Froyd

Presentation

Designing spaces that accommodate the technologies that are transforming the learning environment

Gary A. Gabriele, Richard M. Heinz
Gabriele and Heinz explain the issues, process, and benefits of creating studio classrooms at RPI. Eliminating long lectures and focusing on student discovery, studio classrooms provide the opportunity for hands-on activities, multi-media learning, and interaction between students and faculty, and ultitmately, increase the excitement for learning for the student and instructor.

Essay

A Science-Based, Integrative Pilot Approach to Introduction to Psychology

Nancy Dess
A pilot introductory course ventures away from the traditional approach of explaining the structure of the discipline and toward a topical teaching approach that exchanges depth for breadth.

Transforming Undergraduate Programs in STEM: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
AAC&U Liberal Education, Vol. 94, No. 2

Jeanne L. Narum
Are new approaches to transforming undergraduate learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) making a difference? If so, how? How do we know? And what next? Now that that “coming decade” is here, it is timely to ask how accurate those predictions were and to offer some new recommendations for the next decade.

Other Resources

A Kaleidoscope of Thoughts on the Future— 2025

Exceprts from PKAL Volume III, these five visions of the future of education explore issues of technology, interdisciplinarity, communication, curriculum, and the liberal arts.

Hot pedagogy and cold buildings

David Lopatto
David Lopatto, Professor of Psychology at Grinnell College, explores the influences of motivation and emotion on decision-making and on thinking– what psychologists occasionally call “hot cognition.”

Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices

Karl A. Smith

Teaching and Learning in Computer Science: Incorporating Assessment as a Tool Against Obsolescence

David L. Ranum

Translating “How People Learn” into a Roadmap for Institutional Transformation: Framing Some of the Issues

Jose P. Mestre
In this presentation, Jose Mestre, Professor of Physics and Educational Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, "highlights several important conclusions from STEM learning research that have a bearing on the instructional mission of universities." He proposes "some issues and questions for us to consider in thinking about a roadmap for transforming the modern university that is aligned with our best understanding of learning."