Increasingly, professional education programs are being required, like many other business investments, to show clear and measurable results. In their 2019 study, UNICON reported that 56% of L&D executives think ROI for executive education ...
Throughout 2020, universities worldwide began to teach remotely, deciding which platforms to use, whether to teach synchronously or asynchronously, how to prepare faculty, and what to expect from students’ participation while online.
Decades of research demonstrate that active learning is superior to lectures, but lecturing is still the dominant mode of teaching. Why do lectures persist? One hypothesis is that faculty don’t care. A better hypothesis is that faculty avoid ...
Since early African hominids gathered to discuss flint chipping techniques, teachers have worked with their students in shared physical spaces. Being in a shared physical space enables us to have a shared focus of attention: what researchers call ...
Imagine looking at a high school transcript. Perhaps you are a high school student, or the parent of one, or a college admissions officer. The transcript shows a B+ in biology. What does this mean? Presumably, it means that the student has a B+ ...
For many organizations, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training has become a necessity within their overall talent strategy. However, research has shown that organizational diversity training could backfire, particularly when it relies ...
In the past several decades, interdisciplinary research that integrates approaches from diverse specialized fields has produced significant advances in human knowledge, and has spawned multiple areas of sustained collaboration in areas such as ...
Cadi Russell is a Minerva Baccalaureate instructor teaching English Fundamentals since September 2020.
How are the Minerva Baccalaureate classes you teach different from standard high school classes? There is a high expectation for student participation, collaboration, attendance, and accountability, as they are required to come with pre-work ...
Sarah Clancy on how teaching Minerva Baccalaureate classes engages her students through an interdisciplinary curriculum
In 2012, Tony Wagner, then a Harvard Innovation Education Fellow, interviewed hundreds of CEOs to determine the skills that our youth would need to thrive in the future. He reported themes such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration ...
Martin “Trey” Willoughby III is an inaugural class student of the Minerva Baccalaureate at Laurel Springs School.
Molly Croes is an inaugural class student of the Minerva Baccalaureate at Laurel Springs School.
A case for pedagogies that hybridize cross-disciplinary skills with core knowledge.
We have witnessed an unprecedented scale and intensity of disruptions to teaching practices in the last five months. Many teachers who had limited opportunities for training and guidance had to bring their classes online almost overnight ...
Due to campus closures prompted by the coronavirus, college teachers and students all over the world have experienced firsthand the challenges involved in creating high quality online learning experiences. Of course, taking a class that was ...
When things suddenly went online, it was not the time for new tools or techniques. But, now that you’re settling in, you might be thinking about how to level up.
Most educators will be encountering challenges over the next few weeks and months, as their educational institutions transition to online teaching in response to the novel coronavirus.
Almost as rapid as the spread of coronavirus came the abrupt mass migration of practically every facet of modern-day life to online platforms. As universities, schools, and workplaces across the world shut down, the transition to online ...
As on-campus meetings for laboratory courses are cancelled, you might be wondering if you’ll be able to meet your goals in a virtual environment. It will take some adjustment, but it is doable if you are strategic about what you want your ...
If you are accustomed to in-person teaching, a sudden switch to a fully-online format can be disorienting and exhausting. You're not alone! The good news is that fully-online teaching can be great, even better than in-person teaching.
As a founding member of the academic team for a university that does all of our teaching in a virtual classroom, I have had many inquiries over the past few days. The faculty I have spoken with feel understandably anxious about how to make...