As higher education continues to move towards a collaborative model, it becomes more important for students to learn how to work collaboratively with each other on projects and to communicate clearly through a variety of mediums. Dr. Jennette Lovejoy, Assistant Professor of Communications, explored this idea recently through a semester long experiment that required students to complete a project with their classmates without ever meeting face to face. In this podcast, she talks about why she wanted students to work this way and also discusses her decision process around introducing new technologies into her classes.
You don’t have to be shocking to be innovative. There are really small ways you can turn a paradigm or think about one project to change within your curricula that can make a difference and can be very innovative…To be thoughtful in academia right now, you have to be thinking about technology regardless of discipline. You have to be thinking about how technology is influencing or not…I think the big idea is to keep questioning and integrating at the same time.
Dr. Lovejoy is a Sustainability Fellow for the Academic Technology Roundtable, a role that allows her to continue to push her own boundaries with the use of technology in the classroom and to encourage others to do so too.
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Episode 9 – Dr. Jennette Lovejoy
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