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Assignments Civic Engagement Education OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Resources

Tamo Chattopadhay – Group Civic Engagement Project

This assignment describes how students in an education course develop and pursue civic engagement projects that involve working with school-age children and youth.

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Assignments Class Activities Curriculum OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Resources Seminar Practices Student Engagement Writing

Takako Mino – African Case Team Presentation

This assignment, from the first course in Ashesi University’s Leadership Series, focuses on inviting students to apply the leadership concepts they learned to a case study in order to analyze a real life problem in Africa and to create potential solutions to address these complex challenges.

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Assignments Close Reading Curriculum Economics OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Resources Social Sciences Writing

Sameh Hallaq – Macroeconomics and COVID Report

This assignment was designed to offer students the opportunity to analyze and present macroeconomic concepts, through a written report and oral presentation, in relation to their different disciplines and the current situation in Palestine.

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Assignments Class Activities OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Resources Science Student Engagement

Ross Shields – The Search for the Primordial Plant

This assignment offers a way to combine digital learning with a collaborative investigation of the outdoors by inviting students to seek out examples of plants in various processes of transformation. Students were encouraged to collaborate and share these examples through an online forum as a way to enrich textual discussion.

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Assignments Close Reading OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Psychology Resources Student Engagement Writing

Richard Kurker – Psychology of…

This mini-project invites students to choose a work of popular culture of interest to them and then analyze the psychological issues and themes present in it.

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Assignments Class Activities Curriculum OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Resources Theater and Performance Writing

Rachel Nelson – When you Say; An Embodied Oral History Exercise

This assignment blends oral history and performance, inviting students to conduct interviews and then translate those conversations into a short script that is staged and performed.

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Assignments Close Reading Discussion History Literature OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Resources Seminar Practices

Nemesio Gil – “The Caribbean Racism and Slavery” and “Representation of Black Beauty in the Caribbean”

This assignment takes advantage of the connected or blended learning environment to invite students to engage with a range of texts through audio informational lectures which are then discussed in forums.

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Assignments Class Activities Curriculum OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Resources Seminar Practices Student Engagement Writing

Michael Harris Cohen – Introduction Sketch

This assignment offers a way to integrate speeches and research presentations as a way for students to share their work with one another and gain experience in both written and oral communication methods.

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Mayesha Tasnim – Design a Training Program

In the context of a Human Resources Management course, this assignment invites students to design an entire training program which can be translated into real life contexts.

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Assignments Class Activities Discussion OSUN Connected Learning Contest Winners Resources Seminar Practices Student Engagement Writing

Laura Kelly – VR-Video Reflection

This resource offers an approach to encourage students to develop a habit of reflection through the use of short weekly video reflections that are shared online.