September 16, 2020 Collaborative Salads? (Part Two) Discovering lessons for effective collaboration “At the end of our last class, I asked you to come up with lessons about collaborative practices from the salad recipe experience,” Monica Weekly said...
September 9, 2020 Collaborative Salads? (Part One) Collaboration as more than a collection of competing efforts “Before we start with our regular small group discussions in class, I want to help you learn what can make collaborative discussions...
September 2, 2020 Breakthrough Facilitation How can we help students become breakthrough facilitators? Cathy began her office hour visit with some hesitation, “Dr. Sperios, I didn’t want to sound like I’m grade-grubbing, but I don’t understand...
August 26, 2020 Cordon Bleu Discussion Preparation Preparing Discussions Like Preparing a Fine Meal "Before I entered the academy, I was a Cordon Bleu chef,” so began Henri Durand, assistant professor of Communication Studies. “This class is designed...
August 24, 2020 Toward a Safer, More Beloved Community “But the end [of nonviolent protest] is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type...
August 19, 2020 The Future of Sports & Fitness: an online, 4-session community conversation series Join us this fall for What IF…? Online Community Conversations: The Future of Sports and Fitness, a four-part exploratory conversation series Imagine a future without sports and fitness activities. What would...
August 19, 2020 Peer Shadowing to Enhance Student Discussion Participation Shifting to a skill improvement approach for evaluating discussions Alston James liked to use discussions in his classes but had always been concerned about the students who rarely said anything. Some...
August 17, 2020 What IF …? Public Safety, Race, & Society–the Third of Three Conversations What's your vision of an ideal future for "public safety"? That was the question at the heart of the third of our three-part Community Conversation Series on Public Safety, Race, and...
August 12, 2020 Student-Centered Remote Learning Using Student-Facilitated Discussions to Enhance Remote Learning Dr. Becca Adams was upset with her experience of remote teaching in the spring semester, when her campus shut down due to the coronavirus....
August 5, 2020 Interactive Meetings as Collaborative Learning Events What if we structure meetings as collaborative learning events? “Congratulations on being selected as the Chair of the campus Task Force”, said Julie Morton to her colleague Debra Walsh. “Thanks, but I’m...
July 29, 2020 Hijacked Discussions How might we encourage greater empathy in discussions? Professor Amanda Hooper liked to use discussion groups in her social science course. These usually worked well. But she was troubled by a...
July 23, 2020 What IF …? Public Safety, Race, & Society–the Second of Three Conversations What are different dimensions of "public safety"? Since the police killing of George Floyd, there have been uprisings and protests in the streets across the US and around the world. In...