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Creating Community in Your Courses

Getting students to engage in class can be difficult but establishing a positive classroom community can go a long way to help with that. In this session, you’ll hear about a few strategies that have proven to be successful. Through a variety of classroom activities and practices, students have been able to make strong connections to their peers and their instructors.

Allow Students to Author Their Own Learning Path

Giving students a voice in how their learning is structured can make their learning journey more relevant, meaningful and enjoyable. During this session, you’ll hear how student-designed lessons and assessments were successfully implemented in two very different disciplines. Through a series of scaffolded assignments, biology lab students designed their own experiments as the culminating activity in the course. Art students worked in groups to design assignments for classmates and grade peers’ final presentation of the resulting work.

Active Learning Through Gameplay

Capturing and securing student attention can be a struggle for even the most seasoned instructors. As educators strive to create meaningful learning experiences for students, we will share two game-based activities to enhance student engagement. First, ‘Escape rooms’ are game-based learning activities in which students detect clues, solve puzzles, and work collaboratively to “escape” the room. Second, Kahoot, a free online tool, is more engaging and rewarding for students than zoom polls.