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Byline: Dave Winterstein

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Serge Petchenyi / Cornell University Classics students explore Sage chapel with instructor Verity Platt.
Active Learning

Active Learning Initiative awards 5 new grants

Cornell Chronicle

The Active Learning Initiative has announced its Phase IV grants. The winning proposals, from Classics, Government, History, the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, included collaborations that extend across Cornell.

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Shanzai Ikhlas '24/Cornell University Exploration of women and gender in the Middle East - acrylic
Social Justice

Course art exhibition teaches expression about social justice

Cornell Chronicle

The exhibition helped students connect more personally with migration issues and share alternative stories of social justice and migration.

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Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Darlene Campbell, senior lecturer in biology, works with students in class.
Comparative literature

Reshaping student experiences through new innovations in teaching

Cornell Chronicle

This fall, a new group of Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners are beginning work on projects to enhance student learning environments across Cornell.

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Classroom innovation

Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom

Cornell Chronicle

This fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods

Classics

Classics active learning course explores differences in ways of writing

Cornell Chronicle

A classics course provided students with a hands-on understanding of the processes behind writing and writing systems in all parts of the world

Economics

In pandemic, students with tech-savvy teachers fared better

Cornell Chronicle

“It is the courses that have intentional, structured peer interaction that have the least loss in learning."

Online learning

Event highlights strategies for online teaching

Cornell Chronicle

As instructors and students are still adjusting to the online format imposed on them at the outbreak of the pandemic a year ago, the Cornell Online Learning Community asked speakers and participants at its 7th annual event, “What Works and What’s Next in online teaching and learning?” Over 100 participants gathered virtually on March 9 to look back on a year of online teaching to understand successful strategies to adapt as they continue developing this relatively new learning space.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Doctoral students collaborate on active learning for life sciences

A&S Communications

“The authors have produced a genuinely useful tool...of value for evolutionary teaching at Cornell and beyond.”

Mathematics

Active learning helps math department boost academic success

Cornell Chronicle

Students liked being able to talk over the work with their peers, saying they felt less afraid of making mistakes.

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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

New study informing efforts to improve STEM retention

Cornell Chronicle

Knowing what to study and having the necessary skills to succeed are students’ main course-related concerns early in introductory STEM classes, according to a new study co-led by Cornell researchers – findings that Cornell faculty are now working to address.

Teaching Excellence

Teaching assistant award winners champion inclusivity

Cornell Chronicle

Doctoral students Sri Lakshmi Sravani Devarakonda and Cheyenne Peltier have been named winners of the 2019-20 Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.