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During this CoLab event, presenters Judith Josiah-Martin (University of Maine, Social Work) and Alison Smith Mitchell (Plymouth State, Social Work) demonstrated how to create a climate of courageous inquiry through […]
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In September, PSU IDEA Center director, Alberto Ramos, offered two sessions of a Fast Blast on difficult conversations in the classroom. He’s provided the slides he used as a resource […]
- Categories: Building a Classroom Community, Featured, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Aimee Pascale Many active engagement strategies are evidence-based to support retention, learning, and the student experience. Learn about a few quick, easy to implement active engagement strategies conducive to […]
- Categories: Building a Classroom Community, Featured, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Brad Moser During the Spring 2023 semester, I trialed a 7-week student-designed, measurement-based project to reengage my students in introductory physics. This was a big success! I’ve extended this […]
- Categories: Featured, Inclusive Pedagogy, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Jessie Chapman Checking in is a classroom engagement tool I have carried over from my work in professional and educational theatre settings. It effectively uses the first five minutes […]
- Categories: Featured, Inclusive Pedagogy, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Nic Helms How might we design our courses with neurodivergent students in mind? This presentation will focus on Canvas and syllabus course construction, and will build on the ungrading […]
- Categories: Featured, Instructional Design, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Nat Tuck Typically programming assignments are given as homework and students are allowed to use arbitrary online resources as long as they don’t directly plagiarize. This semester I tried […]
- Categories: Featured, Instructional Design, SPIN 2024
Presenter: Jason Charrette This presentation will discuss the why and how of using role-playing simulations as the principal mode of classroom instruction. Using examples from courses taught at PSU, it […]
- Categories: Cluster Learning: Open Education, Featured
Matt Cheney recently sat down with Co-Director of punctum books, Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy for a conversation about Open Access publishing: the what, the how, the why. Founded in 2011, […]
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Thanks to an enormous effort by more than 25 folks across Plymouth State, the CoLab is very proud to make available a new Canvas module, “If You Need Support…,” which you […]
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