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Law students present a case study to their peers, simulating real-world cases young lawyers might face. Introduction: This series of case studies is used to teach Regulation of Financial Institutions. It is designed to give students practical experience...

To turn midterms from a stressful solo judgmental activity into a pedagogical tool, the instructor implemented a team component to the midterm. Goal The goal is to make midterms a learning experience (in addition to an evaluative experience). Before class...

Is it possible to teach organizational behavior in a classroom? See how this instructor accomplishes this. Goal: The purpose of the XB group project was to demonstrate the challenges of an organization in a controlled environment. Background: Students...

By splitting students into three, distinct Late Roman Republic groups (Optimates, Populares, and Moderates), the instructor had students developed personas based on their assignments through the Twitter platform. Activity: Roman History through Twitter...

Students created videos describing their final projects on language and identity in Latin America so that their peers could view them outside of class and provide feedback. Goals: To allow student to consolidate their ideas, share their project with the...

Students develop a greenhouse gas inventory and reduction plan for a business, non-profit, government entity, or other institution by working with the organization to understand their sources of emissions and find practical methods of reducing them. Goals...

To gain practical experience in investment situations, students pitch real estate investments to their peers and determine where to allocate their capital. Goals: gain practical decision-making experience by working through real life investment situations...

Students apply what they have learned in the classroom to their own dinner plates by creating a meal based on principles of health and sustainability that are attentive to personal, local, and global considerations. Goals: more deeply understand what...

Students imagine themselves to be policy advisers and write a policy memorandum on government transparency and secrecy to the imagined Transparency Reform Council. Goal/s: (1) To familiarize students with a new writing genre. Students with significant...

This final lab project, contributed by the Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence, utilizes the techniques learned throughout the semester in the lab as well as the concepts learned in the lecture portion of the class. The project involves a person...