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Large Lecture Best Practices List (Plus Sample Activity), Jessica Luck
Large Lecture Best Practices List (Plus Sample Activity), Jessica Luck
Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy
Includes a list of tips and best practices for running Large Lecture classes effectively, as well as a Bibliography of helpful resources (focused on English/Humanities). Ends with a sample engaging large lecture activity in which students perform Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells.”
Digital Culture Or Gutenberg Culture: Some Reflections On The Design Principles Of Online Courses., Julie Paegle
Digital Culture Or Gutenberg Culture: Some Reflections On The Design Principles Of Online Courses., Julie Paegle
Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy
This short essay explores online course design, especially in the crisis conditions of the coronavirus pandemic. We reflect on the question of whether the basic design orientation in online classes should be toward textual or non-textual content, and we consider the view that textual content may in fact be far better.
Reflections On Pedagogy For Large Lecture Humanities Courses, Stephen Lehigh
Reflections On Pedagogy For Large Lecture Humanities Courses, Stephen Lehigh
Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy
In this short essay, lecture technique used by Professor Michael Sandel is adapted to the task of shaping productive lectures in a large lecture course in the humanities, here literature. A brief discussion of Sandel’s method distills it into four points. A brief example follows.
Reacting To The Future: An Immersive Experience With The Hunger Games, Amanda Taylor
Reacting To The Future: An Immersive Experience With The Hunger Games, Amanda Taylor
Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy
Description of an immersive, role-play based assignment centered on The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Designed for a ENG 1120 Speculative Fiction course focused on dystopian literature. The assignments adapts elements of Reacting to the Past pedagogy and was developed as part of a Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community focused on large lecture literature courses.