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Project-based Learning

Many classes across both BU campuses incorporate elements of project-based, team, and experiential learning. What are the challenges for faculty working with these pedagogical models in the remote-learning space? The faculty panel shares their strategies for adapting these active-learning approaches to the remote-teaching environment. Topics include:

Kitchen Science and Backyard Nature: Playful, Inquiry-Based Learning Goes Online

Managing Team Projects in the Remote Environment

Practice-Based Teaching:  The Necessary Ingredients for Successful Delivery…Anytime, Anywhere

A Class in Which Students Perform Research Tasks for Environmental Organizations

The Blank Syllabus

 

View the one-hour presentation above or access individual Lightning Talks below.

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Kitchen Science and Backyard Nature: Playful, Inquiry-Based Learning Goes Online

Overview

This presentation introduces core values from the Pedagogy of Play research on learning through play, and highlights examples of how this framework will guide a remote project-based learning experience for Early Childhood Education students fall 2020.

Presenter

Megina Baker

Early Childhood Education

BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development

Managing Team Projects in the Remote Environment

Overview

This presentation addresses some of the challenges inherent in academic team project work specific to remote or virtual teaming. The talk also offers specific steps faculty can take to help their students create and sustain a successful remote team experience.

Presenter

Sandi Deacon Carr

Faculty Director, BU Cross College Challenge

Master Lecturer, Management and Organizations, BU Questrom School of Business

Testimonial

“Everyone was quite creative, so it helps in pushing ideas out of the box…I loved the idea of ‘blanks’ in the syllabus. It is very helpful to see the snapshot of class and student types, where content is strictly ordered or more open ended and participatory as the course unfolds” – Project-based Learning Lightning Talk Attendee

Practice-Based Teaching: The Necessary Ingredients for Successful Delivery

Overview

This Lightning Talk provides an overview of the necessary ingredients of planning and delivering Project-based Teaching courses in this new higher education landscape and how they can be successfully delivered in-person, virtually, or in hybrid format.

Presenter

Jacey Greece BU Lightning TalkJacey Greece

Clinical Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences

BU School of Public Health

A Class in Which Students Perform Research Tasks for Environmental Organizations

Overview

This Lightning Talk presentation covers how the instructor helps students formulate and carry out their efforts to produce product useful to professional efforts to improve environmental and public health.

Presenter

R Reibstein BU Lightning TalkRichard Reibstein

Lecturer, Earth & Environment

BU College of Arts & Sciences

The Blank Syllabus

 

Overview

The “blank syllabus” is not totally blank; it just leaves some  items blank—typically a certain number of course readings—and invites students to fill them in. This talk highlights a variety of ways to do this in a range of courses. Whatever form it takes, the blank syllabus approach deepens students’ engagement with the subject matter, with each other, and with their own educations by involving them in the semester’s most important project: creating the class.

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Presenter

Chris Walsh

Director, Writing Program

BU College of Arts & Sciences

About the Moderator: Sarah Chobot Hokanson

Sarah Hokanson BU Lightning Talk

Sarah Chobot Hokanson is Assistant Provost of Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs at Boston University, where she oversees all aspects of postdoctoral scholarship and training as well as professional development for doctoral students. Sarah completed her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and was a Chemistry and Chemical Biology postdoc at Cornell University. When she’s not being a powerhouse in her support of BU grad students and post docs, Sarah enjoys time with her twins, running, eating pizza for breakfast, reading  a good book, and rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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About Boston University's Remote & Hybrid Teaching & Learning Lightning Talk Series

The Remote Teaching & Learning Lightning Talks Summer and Fall 2020 series, co-hosted by Digital Learning & Innovation and The Center for Teaching & Learning, is a reflection and learning forum where Boston University faculty and invited guests identify areas of challenge and opportunity and share strategies for engaging educational experiences in the remote-learning environment.

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