Center for Engaged Learning

Do Cohesive Groups Matter?

by David Buck In previous posts (here and here), I’ve been writing about the different ways that groups can be created for class projects, and whether the method of group assignment has an impact on learning. In this post, I …

New Scholarship on Writing Beyond the University: Writers’ Complex Experiences

by Julia Bleakney New studies seek to update the field of Writing Studies’ understanding of writing beyond the university by explaining how writers enter into and navigate these spheres, writers’ complex roles in non-curricular writing contexts, or the kinds of …

A Complicated and Qualified Recommendation for Creating Groups

by David Buck As a warning, I’m going to talk about methods again for part of this post because I can’t seem to help myself, but I will actually make a recommendation by the end, so there is a payoff …

Ask your students: The value of student input on online course design

by Sophia Abbot and Geneva Stein For Jeongmin Cho, a junior at Princeton University from Seoul, South Korea, the transition to remote learning this spring was a transition to an entirely new form of teaching and learning. He explains, “I …

Beware of Simple Universal Recommendations about Group Assignment

by David Buck With any group assignment, there are a number of decisions that need to be made before introducing the assignment to students. Some of those decisions have to do with features of the assignment (e.g., what will you …

Designing Online or Hybrid/Flex Study Away Experiences.

In response to shifts to online learning due to COVID-19 in spring 2020 and in anticipation of alternate models for higher education in fall 2020 and beyond, we have curated publications and online resources that can help inform programmatic and …

What Makes Workplace Writing Meaningful?

by Julia Bleakney What factors related to college writing make it meaningful to students? Are these the same factors that make workplace writing meaningful to alumni? The meaningfulness of college writing is an important concept for educators and administrators. In …

Are Group Assignments a Waste of Time?

by David Buck Are group assignments effective pedagogy or a waste of time? This is the question asked by researcher Michael Thom (2020) in his recent paper examining the scholarship on collaborative pedagogy. To be clear, I’m being literal here. …

Collaborative Projects and Assignments

by David Buck The high-impact educational practice (HIP) that I’m studying and writing about for the next two years is “collaborative projects and assignments.” Part of the reason that I selected this topic was because it was one of the …

Lessons Learned from Mentoring Undergraduate Research this Summer

Salient Practices of Undergraduate Research Mentoring by Eric E. Hall, Elizabeth Bailey, Simon Higgins, Takudzwa Madzima, Svetlana Nepocatych, Matthew W. Wittstein, and Caroline J. Ketcham This past March, as universities were transitioning to distance learning, in addition to figuring out …

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