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It's Like A Video Game: How To Use Twine To Create Scenario Based Learning Online, Amanda Mapel Belarmino Jan 2021

It's Like A Video Game: How To Use Twine To Create Scenario Based Learning Online, Amanda Mapel Belarmino

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How can you engage students online by utilizing the online environment? Solution: a choose-your-own adventure style game. As an Assistant Professor of Hospitality Management, I teach a class in Strategic Management where I used a software called Twine to create a choose-your-adventure type scenario where the students make their own decisions for a business scenario and then see the consequences of their decisions.


Motivating Autonomous Knowledge Exploration, Yvonne Houy Jan 2020

Motivating Autonomous Knowledge Exploration, Yvonne Houy

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Flow Learning Design: Autonomous Knowledge Exploration The feeling of “Flow” — forgetting time — while exploring online media is common: As online instructor & instructional designer I want to encourage Flow in my students as they interact with my online learning materials. Inspired by research on student motivation and autonomous learners, I developed learning activities allowing students to choose learning paths with increasing freedom, while emphasizing core disciplinary skills and student learning outcomes. In an online social history course, I emphasized high interest topics such as the devastating effects of the Black Plague, and how sugar, coffee, and syphilis changed …


Developing A Teaching Philosophy Statement, Steve Hayden Jan 2018

Developing A Teaching Philosophy Statement, Steve Hayden

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In the college of education it is common practice for students to write multiple versions of a concise and direct teaching philosophy statement (1,000-1,500 words).


Web Based Classroom Management Enhanced By Personalized And Experiential Learning, Cecilia Turman Jan 2018

Web Based Classroom Management Enhanced By Personalized And Experiential Learning, Cecilia Turman

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The purpose of this practice is to promote experiential and personalized learning in online instruction.