Digital Learning Educational Innovation Across Northwestern

but I feel like the students want to be there more when they have relationships with people in the ... a traditional research paper, students had to write a script of a conversation between four people—two of the ... Benjamin, a professor of African-American studies at Princeton University and the author of  People ...

a different way of looking at how learning can engage people.”  The student response has been overwhelmingly ... GeoGame offered through the Daily Northwestern seeks to increase geography knowledge. 142 people won ... realized an educational deficiency in herself and her students: knowledge of geography.  What Candy noticed ...

to urge students to think imaginatively about people's working lives and to take seriously the ... interviews with more than 130 people from various occupations and careers in the United States, like farmers, ... into a book called Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day & How They Feel About What They ...

call a socio-technical system, for people to come together and help each other by pairing experts ... connect students across projects, teams, and even research areas to be able to help each other. “The ... students are using Pair Research to help resolve blockers that could be things like: I have a problem with ...

New Student Dashboard in Canvas Enhanced To Do list helps students manage tasks Canvas recently ... released a new dashboard view for students that quickly shows students upcoming agenda items from their ... assigned to students will appear on the new dashboard. To try the new dashboard, click on the More Options ...

with people from the different schools,” said McCormick Master of Engineering Management student Meenu ... Use Data to Influence Student Behavior ETLAN Workgroup reconvenes for 2016-2017 Key Concepts:  ... Faculty, graduate students, and staff from across the institution come together to find insights in ...

the MOOC as a way to jumpstart a community of people across different areas at Northwestern with ... people to respond.  We were shocked when 24 people from eight departments enthusiastically replied.  ... for our faculty and students,” said Victoria Getis, manager of Northwestern IT Services and ...

Simple Methods to Introduce Gamification Increase motivation and participation Most people aren’t ... Gamification is reaching popularity in education at all levels because most students respond strongly and ... positively to it. Students often feel a stronger connection to their classmates if they’re part of a team ...

Siri on the Apple iPhone, make it possible for people to perform many useful functions simply by ... Northwestern, “For people without disabilities, technology makes things easy. For people with disabilities, ... as many people as possible? Canvas is the center of online learning at Northwestern. Fortunately, it ...

Key Concepts:  On-campus students’ participation in the MOOC greatly enhanced the level of discussion ... people from around the world for free. Additionally, offering his course online allowed him the freedom ... to “try out new pedagogical ideas and have online students give us feedback.” Since launching, the ...

pedagogical and research projects with meaningful roles for students. First up is Dr. Galya Ben-Arieh and her ... people think about refugees. Normally the narrative is: we have to get their stories out there. Yes, part ... people will hear those stories and the interaction between them and the stories. If you just put people ...

people. So when I teach digital literacies with my students who are going to be teachers and hoping that ... location. To be able to communicate with different peoples productively and humbly, you need to view them as ... they're going to teach this to their students, I'm really teaching the pro-social web, a pro-societal ...

Northwestern Undergrads Advance to Final Round of Big Ten Student Design Challenge Baya Weavers ... design student "nest" Three Northwestern undergrads from the McCormick School of ... advance to the final round of judging in the Big Ten Student Design Challenge. If chosen, their design, ...

The students hope their work will allow people who lacked the opportunity to see live performances to ... problems Each quarter, Northwestern’s Knight Lab offers a studio class in which a select group of students ... collaborate on innovative projects. Students come from a variety of disciplines to create an artifact related ...

professor of English Kelly Wisecup regularly has her students study the physical scrapbooks of Jimmy ... students can use the digital interface to review them in more detail over the course of the quarter. ... Digital_Johnson-Scrapbooks-Volume-1-2-892x1024.png “The digital copies let the students read the scrapbooks through multiple lenses,” she said, such ...