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
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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
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
Richard 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.
Presenter
Chris Walsh
Director, Writing Program
BU College of Arts & Sciences
About the Moderator: Sarah Chobot Hokanson
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.
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.