Active Learning

  • For every major, there is a key set of skills that students are expected to obtain and refine over the course of their educational experience. In English, the two primary skills are writing and close reading.  Close reading can be defined as
  • When you hear someone say they are dancer, immediately an image of a person performing on a stage in front of an audience appears in your head. Generally, our view of dance as an art form tends to exist within a narrow scope that is bounded within
  • A growing number of academic professionals are switching from traditional classroom lectures to online classes. Online learning and in person lectures are now becoming a popular combination of learning tools in academia. At the 2011 COLTT (Colorado
  • ,鈥淚f only I were four inches taller鈥,鈥 鈥淚f only I were skinnier鈥.,鈥 鈥淚f only I had bigger breasts...,鈥 鈥淚f only I had a smaller nose鈥,鈥 鈥淚f only if only鈥︹. For many young women, these thoughts accompany them in their daily lives and can even lead to
  • Keith Kearnes is sitting in his unlit office in the second floor of the Department of Mathematics building. In his hand is a set of stapled yellow sheets jotted with formulas and numbers.鈥淪ome students will submit it on paper; the other solution was
  • Many professors at CU are motivated to find new and creative ways to teach. Among them is Matt Koschmann, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, who has plans to use Whiteboard Animate as a creative way to orient students to his
  • When Lia Pileggi began conducting workshop classes for photographing artwork she noticed something. With a little help from the people she was helping, she realized her department was missing a resource of potential value for students.鈥淚n every
  • Learning becomes fun and comprehensible with the integration of pictures and photos with texts. Pictures help provide tangible aspect to learning which texts alone cannot provide. Anne W. Costain, Director of Women and Gender Studies and professor
  • Inuit Throat singing from parts of North America, particularly Alaska and Greenland, is not only fascinating, but a culture that empowers women by giving them voice to speak. A similar concept is also applied in the workshop created by Beth
  • In field of research where numbers, equations, and charts usually appear on paper, applied mathematics professor Dr. John Flynt likes his math a little more visually interactive. To help construct his vision, Flynt recruited eight students to work
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