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...report also advocates an initiative in “activity-based learning??�� that would connect academic work with students’ activities outside of class...
...seeing syllabi in which homework entails more than required reading. In a new collaboration, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Harvard Public Service Network held an information session yesterday to introduce students to 10 “activity-based learning??�� classes, three of which haven’t been offered before. Each of the courses includes community service to prompt students to draw from a volunteer experience for a deeper understanding of the subject matter being studied, according to Lisa M. Boes, a research officer...
...rather than later, and it needs to be centrally located. In the meantime, social space on the current campus should be expanded and renovated.The UC should also be putting pressure on the University to address faculty accountability and pedagogy. A position paper “On Better Teaching and Learning??�� was passed in March, focusing on shortcomings in the teaching fellows (TF) program. The UC has not spoken up on the issue since, and has not addressed the more important question of faculty teaching. CUE evaluations should be published for all faculty members, a system of peer faculty...
...most distressing aspects of plagiarism for professors is that if students are copying the work of others, they are not learning??��and [professors] are first and foremost committed to their students’ intellectual growth,” Kay wrote in an e-mail...
...themselves and their societies so that they could live active, engaged lives.The new Gen Ed proposal, which includes an “Ethical Life” distribution requirement, attempts to bring philosophy into practice. Even more boldly, the report calls for an “initiative in activity-based learning??�� to be implemented in the future. A striking similarity to Dewey’s plan.Committee Co-Chair and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons does not believe that these echoes of Dewey were intentional. “I don’t believe that Dewey...[was] ever mentioned...