2026
Authors share details of strategies and structures they have provided to promote deeper learning.
Contract Grading in an Experiential Learning Class
Jessica Mace
University of Toronto
Students’ learning is deepened through a framework that encourages students’ intrinsic motivation and strengthens the student-instructor learning partnership.
Playing with Purpose: Non-Digital Game-Based Learning for Conceptual Understanding
Kiran Qasim
Aga Khan University – Institute for Educational Development
Game-Based Learning surfaced misconceptions, supported reasoning, and rendered conceptual structures visible, for chemistry students.
Design Thinking for Transferable Skills and Attitudes
Lindsey Caola.
College of the Holy Cross
In collaboration with a campus office, college students used Design Thinking to help solve a real-life challenge.
Community-Based Learning Fosters Preservice Teachers’ Development: A Partnership for Environment Sustainability
Patricia Waters
Saint Joseph’s College of Maine
Preservice teachers, in collaboration with peers, used inquiry learning to teach a series of lessons to elementary school students about pollination and pollinators.
Community Asset Mapping: Expanding Field Work Insights
Kelly Gavin Zuckerman
Bryn Mawr College
Undergraduate education course students create asset maps to strengthen students’ understandings of potential resources for students’ learning, within urban schools and surrounding communities.
Students and Faculty Co-Design Syllabi
R. Jordan Hazelwood
Appalachian State University
Kathryn R. Long
University of North Carolina System
Stacy F. Thornton
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christopher M. Seiz
Appalachian State University
seitzcm@appstate.edu
Former undergraduates and their faculty advisors describe how they worked collaboratively to design the undergraduates’ honors theses requirements and schedule.