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Fahmida Rahman – Reforming the Existing Select Policies of Bangladesh

This assignment invites students to consider themselves policy makers and to try to reform existing policies in Bangladesh. This resource covers the archiving of student assignments and feedback for later review.

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Erin McMullin – Who Does Science?

This assignment allows students to see themselves in the material they learn by letting them explore the people who do science, who they are/were, what their experiences and motivations are/were.

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Dóra Mérai and Volodymyr Kulikov – Online case-study based teaching

This resource covers ways to engage students in online discussion and presentation through the examination of two assignments.

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David Copenhafer – The Social Dimension of Disease in Octavia E. Butler’s “The Evening and the Morning and the Night”

This assignment asked students to read, annotate, and discuss a short story in order to understand how social positioning in the fictional world, as well as in the real world, affects one’s health. Student discussion was followed by a long-form writing assignment.

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Daniel Freund – History of the Americas Final

This assignment asked students to select a current events topic from an instructor-created website. Students then explored a historical event related to their topic of choice and wrote an op-ed.

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Christopher Lindner – Archaeology of my Pandemic Safety Place

This resource discusses the ways in which traditionally hands-on archaeology assignments were transformed to satisfy social distancing requirements and maintain relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Christa Adams – Shinrin-yoku Activity

This assignment offered an opportunity for students to learn about Japanese shinrin-yoku (“forest bathing”). By participating in shinrin-yoku individually, students not only learned about a practice relevant to the course but received a valuable break from the stress of online learning.

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Bruce Chilton – Presentations of Salomé

This assignment asked students to examine, discuss, and write about a variety of visual artifacts remotely.

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Brian Conolly – The Doctrine of Double Effect

This resource examines the advantages asynchronous online discussion has over traditional in-classroom discussion. Students used an online forum to deliberate aspects of The Doctrine of Double Effect.

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Ashley Iguina – Types of Waves & Interference Quiz

This resource examines how transforming the format of online quizzes in a physics class bolstered both student engagement and enjoyment.