Homework

After field trips to three different museums, students create a short 90 second podcast in which they discuss one object encountered. Through this project, students engage with primary artifacts and practice their communication skills. Introduction...

Students read an advanced paper at the beginning of a course and compile a list of terms they do not understand. As the course progresses, the instructor defines these terms. At the end of the course, students re-read the initial paper to gain an...

Students analyze musical themes from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", first as a partnered homework assignment, then during a class discussion, and finally on their own as they passed by in the film. Introduction: This auxiliary unit...

This course on systems engineering and machine architecture weaves a variety of activities including problem sets and coding exercises, to create a more applicable experience for the students. Goal : The goal of the in-class activities is to form a bridge...

This repeating exercise challenges students to learn and memorize previous week's vocabulary. In this particular exercise, the task was to create a sound walk using directions and places in the Indonesian language. Goal : To evaluate each student's...

This term long group re-design project emphasizes individual and collaborative learning to improve website designs. Goal : To build skills in accomplishing a redesign task, making use of target tasks as well as objective timings to evaluate their...

One way to get students engaged in learning is by getting them to self-test and generate their own questions. Goal : To enhance learning that occurs in passive lectures by engaging students in question-generation. Background : The instructor created a...

This course uses the Harvard case method to work on student's change challenges. Goal: For students to articulate change, and apply learning concepts to their “change projects”. Background: The entire course is designed around an iterative process of...

In "The Blank Syllabus" activity, the instructor leaves assigned readings blank for some of the class sessions. The second writing assignment requires students to choose a reading from the course anthology--a reading that is then assigned to the class...

This term course on education and community in America explores the origins and evolution of students and faculty engagement in their communities, specifically in educational programs from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Activity...