Into Practice Research
Below is a random snapshot of research referenced in Into Practice, a biweekly communication distributed to active instructors during the academic year which highlights the pedagogical practices of individual faculty members from across schools and delivers timely, evidence-based teaching advice.
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The Ethic of Care in Teaching: An Overview of Supportive Literature
Owens and Ennis review the literature on the importance of incorporating an ethic of care in the classroom, including three different frameworks for considering the practice.
Enhancing Classroom Lectures with Digital Sliding Blackboards
Another study explores digital blackboard learning software, finding that 80% of students in the study found that it helped them better follow the digital lecture.
Exploring the Use of Multi-Display-Based Electronic Blackboards and Personal Mobile Devices in University Classrooms
This recent study explores the utility of electronic blackboards in STEM classrooms, noting how it can improve visibility and user flexibility for students.
Faculty/Student Mentor Program: Effects on Academic Performance and Retention
A university faculty/student mentor program used the matched pairs design to evaluate its effectiveness and found that students with assigned mentors generally had higher GPAs, completed more units per semester, and dropped out less. The positive effects...
Social Learning and Social Entrepreneurship Education
This program study using social theories of learning to develop best practices for entrepreneurship education found that respecting learners’ identities and making them feel safe in the community of practices is critical to program success.
Teaching for Understanding
Bottino and his team’s practices also mirror what Harvard’s Project Zero termed a teaching for understanding framework, which locates topics that students are passionate about and creates goals, experiences, and assessments around them.
Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter
Bottino bases some of his pedagogical approach in Pentland’s Social Physics, which discusses how people learn more from being exposed to a greater variety in actions, not simply a greater variety in how people claim they will act.
Culture and vision in virtual reality narratives
Research by Mills, Courtney, Dede, Dressen & Gant (2020) suggests that this deep immersion allows students to envision and experience diverse facets of culture, and more vividly imagine their future role as participants in those communities, in ways that...
Comparing immersive Virtual Reality to mobile applications in foreign language learning in higher education: a quasi-experiment
This quasi-experimental study provided evidence that a head-mounted Virtual Reality display device-supported learning more effectively than mobile applications.
A Literature Review on Immersive Virtual Reality in Education: State Of The Art and Perspectives
A recent paper from Freina & Ott s urveys the literature on outcomes for using virtual reality in education, especially in higher education environments, finding that it “increases the learner’s involvement and motivation while widening the range of...