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Learning Spaces – Tour of the Bok Center Learning Lab Studio
Tour of the Bok Center Learning Lab Studio Please join the Learning Spaces Affinity group for a tour of the Bok Center Learning Lab Studio, a space that thrives on innovation and adaptability. This unique setting offers faculty and students the opportunity to experiment and design interactive, engaging multimodal projects that bolster student-centered learning. […]
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Pushing students to confront limits by transforming the abstract to physical form
In her Transformations course, Assistant Professor of Architecture Megan Panzano uses architectural design methods and concepts, and a workshop approach for giving feedback, to engage undergraduates from a wide range of concentrations. When students translate abstract ideas into physical form through a variety of materials and fabrication techniques (see photos below), they confront limits, question assumptions, and expand their problem-solving capacity. -
Balance of agency and flexibility helps students develop their own artistic process
Nora Schultz, Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, encourages experimentation and a diversity of readings for her courses Shape Shifting Your Reality and Object Matter of Jelly Fish: Sculpture Course. -
Mastering course content through creative assignments
Elena Kramer, Bussey Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Noel Michele Holbrook, Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, co-teach General Education course OEB 52: Biology of Plants through lectures, labs, field trips, and weekly quizzes that students use to combine concepts into a creative project at the end of the semester. -
Creative projects: Interpreting history through various media
Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies, trains students to interpret history through various media including graphics, data visualizations, videos, and art installations. -
A ‘tangible dimension:’ Learning by making, listening, and tasting
Gojko Barjamovic, Lecturer on Assyriology, increases student learning in ANE 103 Ancient Lives by designing activities to engage students’ full range of senses. -
Whiteness: An Ethnographic Question
Awardee will use an ethnographic lens to spark an interdisciplinary and intergenerational conversation on the role of whiteness in research, pedagogy, and institutional life. -
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. -
“Making space” for interdisciplinary critical thinking
Awardees will offer a series of interdisciplinary workshops that develop critical thinking through making. -
Project Nights and open-ended design research
Awardees will measure the effects of open-ended extracurricular projects on student learning.