This Dialectical Notebook activity invites students into a sustained written conversation about a topic, text or series of texts.
Category: Seminar Practices
This resource offers a range of ideas related to building community and encouraging student agency in the context of connected or online learning.
This resource outlines strategies for engaging students in synchronous close reading using either PDFs or Google Docs.
This resource outlines a way to guide students through the process of understanding/annotating a primary literature scientific article.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This resource shares information about a Visual Contest that invited students across the network to explore how images might help to address the following question: How does freedom of expression change during a pandemic?
This assignment, given in the context of a Social Psychology course, introduces key concepts on the cognitive and emotional roots of prejudice as a setup to a three-class unit, and gives students the opportunities to analyze and integrate information in reading, lecture and video formats, to consider the benefits and limits of different methodologies, and to apply course content to novel situations.