Project-Based Learning in the First Year (eBook, PDF)

Beyond All Expectations
Redaktion: Wobbe, Kristin K.; Stoddard, Elisabeth A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Published in association with This book has two goals: First, to show the value of significant project-based work for first-year undergraduate students; and Second, to share how to introduce this work into first year programs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000972108
• Artikelnr.: 68357132

Autorenporträt

Kristin Wobbe is the associate dean of undergraduate studies and an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Elisabeth A. Stoddard is an assistant teaching professor of environmnetal and sustainability studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Randall Bass is Vice Provost for Education and Professor of English at Georgetown University, where he leads the Designing the Future(s) initiative and the Red House incubator for curricular transformation. For 13 years he was the Founding Executive Director of Georgetown's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS). He has been working at the intersections of new media technologies and the scholarship of teaching and learning for nearly thirty years, including serving as Director and Principal Investigator of the Visible Knowledge Project, a five-year scholarship of teaching and learning project involving 70 faculty on 21 university and college campuses. In January 2009, he published a collection of essays and synthesis of findings from the Visible Knowledge Project under the title, "The Difference that Inquiry Makes," (co-edited with Bret Eynon) in the digital journal Academic Commons (January 2009: http://academiccommons.org). Bass is the author and editor of numerous books, articles, and electronic projects, including recently, Disrupting Ourselves: the Problem of Learning in Higher Education (Educause Review, March/April 2012). He is currently a Senior Scholar with the American Association for Colleges and Universities.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Do Project
Based Learning
Save the World
Randy Bass Acknowledgements Introduction. A Little Bit of History. The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Plan and the Great Problems Seminars
Arthur Heinricher Part One. Making the Case for Project
Based Learning in the First Year 1. An Introduction to Project
Based Learning in the First Year
Kristin Boudreau and Kristin Wobbe 2. The Value of a Transdisciplinary Approach
Kristin Boudreau and Derren Rosbach 3. Institutional Support
Jill Rulfs and Kristin Wobbe Part Two. Preparing for Project
Based Learning 4. Reenvisioning the Role of Faculty
Geoff Pfeifer and David Spanagel 5. Team Teaching. Dialogic Duets
Svetlana Nikitina and Diran Apelian 6. Assessment of Project
Based Learning in the First Year
Rob Traver and Rebecca Ziino Plotke 7. Supporting Project
Based Learning with Librarians and Information Literacy
Marja Bakermans and Rebecca Ziino Plotke 8. Sponsored Projects. Learning With a Sense of Urgency and Agency
Svetlana Nikitina and Diran Apelian Part Three. Making Project
Based Learning Work in the Classroom 9. Setting First Year Students Up for Success in a Project
Elisabeth A. Stoddard and David Spanagel 10. Teaching Course Content through Skill Building
Elisabeth A. Stoddard and Jill Rulfs 11. Equitable and Effective Student Teams. Creating and Managing Team Dynamics for Equitable Learning Outcomes
Geoff Pfeifer and Elisabeth A. Stoddard 12. Managing Student Dynamics and Team Conflict on Student Project Teams
Charlie Morse References Contributors Index