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CourseAtlas launches at Rutgers–New Brunswick
The CourseAtlas scheduling software platform has launched at Rutgers–New Brunswick to schedule Fall 2020 courses. This state-of-the-art software, along with improved scheduling processes, will enable course scheduling that is more responsive to student, instructor, and department needs. The benefits include making it easier for students to get the courses they need and want, reducing bus travel, and allowing academic departments to have their…
Award-winning scholar of teaching and learning to keynote 2020 RU Active Learning Symposium
Stephen Chew, a nationally acclaimed expert on teaching and learning, will be the keynote speaker at the fifth annual Rutgers University Active Learning Symposium, to be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Chew, a professor of psychology at Samford University, will deliver a keynote lecture as well as a workshop at the popular annual event that draws more than 100 faculty and staff from Rutgers and beyond.
Trained as a cognitive psychologist, one…
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Active Learning 101 - Sign up for January
In this half-day session, instructional designers will discuss the pedagogic underpinnings of collaboration-based learning that should inform course design, class management, and more. Instructional technologists will introduce you to the classrooms and technology that can enhance your teaching. Sign up on the registration page.
Active Learning: How Do We Get Our Students On Board?
Research indicates a discrepancy between the teaching methods that help our students learn and their own perceptions of the methods that are effective for their learning. Active engagement in the construction of knowledge was found again and again superior to passive listening to lectures, and yet, our students value the latter more. How do we help them get on board with effective teaching methods? Is it important that the students value and…