July 25, 2017Examples of Smaller-Scale Student-Faculty Partnershipby Ketevan KupatadzeIn previous posts, I described a large-scale student-faculty partnership project. Here I describe several smaller scale experiments involving student-faculty collaboration on course design. Such collaboration was inspired by the course redesign project I completed with three of my students and…
July 13, 2017Course Redesign with Student-Faculty Partnership (Part 2)by Ketevan KupatadzeSee Part 1 for a description of the course redesign process reflected on in this post. Reflections on the changes suggested by student collaborators: Opportunities and limitations Working on course expectations, objectives and requirements, as well as on the rubric…
July 11, 2017Course Redesign with Student-Faculty Partnership (Part 1)by Ketevan KupatadzeWhenever I talk about student-faculty partnerships with my colleagues, the first questions they ask have always been: where does one start, or what can be considered a partnership? How small or how big should my experiment with student-faculty partnership be?…
June 20, 2017What is student-faculty partnership anyway?by Ketevan KupatadzeAlthough student-faculty partnership is a relatively new concept, there’s a growing international interest in the topic, demonstrated by publications such as Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching (2014) by Alison Cook-Sather, Catherine Bovill, and Peter Felten, as well…