Into Practice, a biweekly communication distributed from the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning to active instructors during the academic year was inspired by a successful 2012 HILT grant project. The e-letter highlights the pedagogical practices of individual faculty members from across Schools and delivers timely, evidence-based teaching advice, contributing to and strengthening a University-wide community of practice around teaching.
Below is a catalog of all the Into Practice issues sorted by the publication date. To subscribe to Into Practice, please sign-up via our Mailing List page.
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Putting students at the helm of their learning experience
Jon Hanson, Alfred Smart Professor of Law, saw an opportunity to improve learning by putting students in the driver's seat. -
Development of Student-run Podcasts as an Innovative Learning and Communication Tool
Awardees will develop training workshops to teach students to communicate technical knowledge to broader audiences through podcasting. -
Teaching Decision-Making through Experiential Learning and Personalized Practice Across Disciplines
Awardees will study how decision-making is taught and assessed across disciplines and disseminate effective teaching methods. -
AskUp: Improving learning and metacognition through learner-generated questions
Awardees will continue development of AskUp, a free, open-source studying and learning app that leverages evidence-based techniques to enhance learning, and will evaluate the efficacy of the application’s improvement to metacognition, self-directed learning, and class performance through small randomized trials. -
Assessing learning outcomes from a novel formative assessment in a large enrollment graduate life science course
Awardees will evaluate whether delivering a chalk talk in response to an open-ended experimental design question is an effective method to drive improvements in the general practice and articulation of experimental design, as measured through responses to subsequent written experimental design questions. -
“Making space” for interdisciplinary critical thinking
Awardees will offer a series of interdisciplinary workshops that develop critical thinking through making. -
Virtual reality narratives in foreign language pedagogy
Awardees will engage foreign language students in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives. -
Choice architecture: When students become designers of optimal decision processes
Awardee will develop in-class and online activities to improve student decision-making and increase classroom engagement. -
Project Nights and open-ended design research
Awardees will measure the effects of open-ended extracurricular projects on student learning. -
New methods for hands-on teaching in the history of technology
Awardee developed experiential learning opportunities for students in history of technology courses, including in-class demonstration and simulation.