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Planning for effective, skills-building group projects
Group projects don’t necessarily build teamwork skills. Instructors need to teach and support skill development.
Group projects don’t necessarily build teamwork skills. Instructors need to teach and support skill development.
Emotional labour and care work are part of academia. They should be recognized as such.
Nine active learning ideas to consider as you end the semester.
Effective listening is a valuable life and career skill that instructors can help students develop.
By visualizing the end goal of a project or assignment from the get-go, students can clearly identify which steps are truly necessary.
As we start a new fall semester, instructors should keep in mind that today’s students come from a vast array of backgrounds and still have pandemic-related stress.
Western University’s Own Your Future program reflects a partnership between units across the institution.
Why a small investment of time now can make future course planning much easier.
The economy needs more human skills. There is opportunity for both universities and employers to take steps to address this.
Consider UBC dept. of political science’s rich transcripts project.
Considering York University’s Envision YU initiative model.
Universities must plan how and when to use AI for training.
There is reason to believe that shorter, competency-based programs will play an important role in the university landscape in the coming years.
Use the first class of the term to show students how to use the syllabus and create a plan to direct them back to the syllabus over the semester.