Educational innovation can be found in every corner of our campus. We seek to identify and elevate these efforts, providing mentorship and support to individuals that empowers them to not only achieve their goals for innovation, but also develop professionally as leaders in postsecondary teaching and learning. Navigate through the image cards below to discover the kinds of educational innovation being implemented by some of our partners.
Teaching Political Theory Through Lived Experiences
Pilot Lead: Dean Caivano
Pilot Description: This pilot seeks to explore the impact of teaching political theoretic concepts through an approach that centers the students rather than canonical texts. By highlighting how the lived experiences of students intersect, connect, and are shaped by political ideas, the pilot seeks to invite students to more fully analyze the ways in which theoretical approaches to politics inform daily life.
Virtual Reality in BIOS041 (Cellular and Molecular Biology)
Pilot Lead: Lawrence Tartaglia
Pilot Description: This pilot brings virtual reality (VR) to a large lecture class. The VR world building/creation process requires intention and rational thought to tell a story within a larger picture based on biological principles. Students learn teamwork, how to use databases such as the NIH 3D database, and solidify concepts learned in class. The experience culminates in student presentations of their VR worlds.
Dewatering Simulated Fecal Sludge: A Student-designed Laboratory
Pilot Lead: Gabrielle String
Pilot Description: This pilot meets ABET requirements for students to design and test their own experiments and embodies principles of discovery-based laboratory investigation (rather than prescriptive laboratory exercises). Evaluation of this pilot is focused on how students are engaging with this specific lab, what actions they take to address experimental failures, and their overall perceptions of the experience.