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Annual Report 2018-2019, Jeffrey Ashley, Amy Patrone
Annual Report 2018-2019, Jeffrey Ashley, Amy Patrone
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Annual Report 2017-2018, Jeffrey Ashley
Annual Report 2017-2018, Jeffrey Ashley
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No abstract provided.
Annual Report 2016-2017, Jeffrey Ashley
Annual Report 2016-2017, Jeffrey Ashley
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Annual Report 2015-2016, Jeffrey Ashley
Annual Report 2015-2016, Jeffrey Ashley
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Scott Memorial Library: Academic Year 2015-2016, Liz Mikita
Scott Memorial Library: Academic Year 2015-2016, Liz Mikita
Annual Reports & Administrative Documents
Includes:
- Milestones
- Metrics
- Top Ten Lists
The Center For Teaching & Learning: July 1, 2014 - December 2015, Liz Mikita
The Center For Teaching & Learning: July 1, 2014 - December 2015, Liz Mikita
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Contents:
- From the Director
- New Center Supports Teaching and Learning
- CTL Supports Scholarly Publishing
- iCE Platform Fosters Interactive Learning Experience
- A Physical and Virtual Makeover for Scott Library
- Reaching Out to Our Users
- Exhibits & Special Events
- Staff Highlights
Annual Report Fall 2014-Summer 2015: The Design, Implementation, & Assessment Of Nexus Learning Hubs, Jeffrey Ashley, Susan Frosten, Marion Roydhouse, Sally Dankner, Shannon Gahagan
Annual Report Fall 2014-Summer 2015: The Design, Implementation, & Assessment Of Nexus Learning Hubs, Jeffrey Ashley, Susan Frosten, Marion Roydhouse, Sally Dankner, Shannon Gahagan
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Executive Summary
Literature suggests that active and collaborative pedagogies, as compared to traditional lecturing, may enhance student engagement, motivation, retention, learning, and achievement. While Philadelphia University’s faculty members have embraced these Nexus Learning pedagogies that facilitate active and collaborative learning, the built environment of our traditional classrooms, and their associated technologies, have often limited the effectiveness. Philadelphia University began an initiative aiming to radically transform existing traditional learning spaces into intentionally designed learning environments that aim to minimize the physical and technological limitations of some of our traditional classrooms and maximize the beneficial evidence-based approaches of active, collaborative, real world …
2010-2011 Best Practice Sampler: The Theory And Practice Of Teaching At Philadelphia University, Jane Antheil, Marion Roydhouse
2010-2011 Best Practice Sampler: The Theory And Practice Of Teaching At Philadelphia University, Jane Antheil, Marion Roydhouse
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Preface
Every faculty member at one time or another has known the sinking sensation that he or she is just not reaching students. Since we entered the profession because we love learning and love to facilitate learning, blank stares and dull eyes lead not only to frustration, but also to disappointment. Paraphrasing Lee Shulman, past President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and a leader in professional education, it is one thing to be competent in subject knowledge and another thing to be competent in subject knowledge pedagogy.
The examples and ideas expressed in these pages come …