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Student-Centered Remote Learning

August 12, 2020

Student-Centered Remote Learning

Using Student-Facilitated Discussions to Enhance Remote Learning Dr. Becca Adams was upset with her experience of remote teaching in the spring semester, when her campus shut down due to the coronavirus....

Designing Facilitation

Designing Facilitation

Facilitation as a Collaborative Design Process "All of you have been to my office and have seen the stained-glass work that I’ve done. Today we are going to create a stained-glass...

Creating Discussion Infrastructures in the Classroom

Creating Discussion Infrastructures in the Classroom

George Wagner invited his colleague Ashley Sackler to visit one of his general education courses to see how he used classroom discussions. Sackler was amazed at what she found. When...

The “Climate” of Climate Discussion

The “Climate” of Climate Discussion

It would probably surprise few that the tone of climate change discussions has changed considerably over the years. I have been involved as facilitator, participant, or observer in over fifty...

Clues, Cues, and Queues…in Online Discussions

Clues, Cues, and Queues…in Online Discussions

How can we manage the flow, when conversations shift to videoconferencing? "One of the skills you are going to need to develop is to look for discussion participation clues,” Professor Sonja...

Prompting Deeper Discussions

Prompting Deeper Discussions

Herbert Watson was an English professor teaching a course on American poetry when the COVID-19 pandemic closed the campus. Like faculty members across the country, he quickly shifted to remote...

Being a Discussion Catalyst

Being a Discussion Catalyst

The class had broken up into their discussion groups as usual. But what wasn’t usual was the vigor of the discussion from one group. In fact, it was vigorous enough...

Ask Follow-Up Questions–and Listen

Ask Follow-Up Questions–and Listen

As the saying goes, Ashley wanted to be the “bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.” She just had to be the center of attention. When she...

Do Conversations Inspire You? How?

Do Conversations Inspire You? How?

Conversations can do so many different things for us: make us feel connected, intrigued, and even alienated. They can also inspire us. The conversations we had during our Winter Concert, Conversation,...

Values-Centered Discussions

Values-Centered Discussions

Greg Jackson was dreading today’s class discussion. As the instructor, he had put together discussion groups with a mix of perspectives on the issues being discussed. While the diversity of...

What Matters – Responding to Disruptive Forces

What Matters – Responding to Disruptive Forces

It was 1665, and London was virtually shut down due to the Great Plague. Cambridge University sent its students home to study alone. One of those students, Isaac Newton, used...

IF Fellow Delivers “Republic Lecture” on Art & Citizenship in Georgetown, Guyana

IF Fellow Delivers “Republic Lecture” on Art & Citizenship in Georgetown, Guyana

IF Fellow Dr. Natalie Hopkinson was invited to deliver the Republic Lecture by the government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on Feb. 22, 2018 on the role of the...

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