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Dialectical Notebook

This Dialectical Notebook activity invites students into a sustained written conversation about a topic, text or series of texts.

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Creating an Online Student Magazine

This resource outlines how to make use of the online learning environment (via tools like flipboard) to share student-driven research, writing, and interests related to any course theme.

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Community, Agency, and Process

This resource offers a range of ideas related to building community and encouraging student agency in the context of connected or online learning.

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Collaborative Close Reading

This resource outlines strategies for engaging students in synchronous close reading using either PDFs or Google Docs.

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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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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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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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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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Marcus Giamattei – Teaching with Interactive Experiments in Online Classes

This activity offers a way to use interactive simulations to engage students in the analysis of concepts learned in a Macroeconomics course.