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CITI Blog Article List By Innovation

  • Using Service Learning in the College Classroom Setting

    July 12, 2019

    Service learning as defined by Rowls & Swick (2000) is an opportunity for students to explore, study, acquire, and apply skills as well as examine problems and issues in a reflective way. It is a pedagogical approach in which students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service experiences that meet actual community needs.

  • Team Teaching: Lessons from the classroom

    July 12, 2019

    Being a part of a team-taught course is something akin to handling a beehive. If you do it well, the reward can be professionally nourishing and provide students with an enriched experience. However, if you fail to approach it respectfully and carefully, the end result can sting quite a bit.

  • Study Away as a High Impact Practice

    July 12, 2019

    Study abroad for students is a well-known and well-utilized high impact practice (HIPs). It allows numerous opportunities for students, by immersing them in new cultural, linguistic or informational settings, to achieve a transformative learning experience. However, often funding and resources can become impediments to the consistent delivery of these programs or for broad student access.

  • Rubric Assessment: Try It; You May Like It!

    July 12, 2019

    The hot word on many college campuses lately has been “rubric assessment”, and you may be wondering the following:

  • Engaging a World Through Speculative Fiction

    July 12, 2019

    In the introduction to Octavia’s Brood, an anthology of speculative fiction short stories inspired by legendary SF writer Octavia Butler, artist and activist Walidah Imarisha writes, “Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction.”

  • Collaborative Assessment: Transforming Assessment into a Learning Opportunity

    July 12, 2019

    I suspect that many of us think of grading as a one-way transaction in formative assessment.  Ideally, grading has the potential to be a source of motivation for students to gauge the degree to which more effort is needed.