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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 …