Teaching Award Opportunity for 2012
Instructors making innovative use of CourseWork, Stanford’s course management system, are encouraged to apply for the 2012 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award.
Learning Language
Ken Romeo is the Academic Technology Specialist for the Language Center at Stanford University. In addition to supporting all language instructors in the use of CourseWork, Stanford’s deployment of the course management system known as Sakai, Romeo also uses it as an instructor. He teaches English as a Second Language to graduate students who have [...]
Taking Students Back to the Source
Assistant professor Allyson Hobbs’ wanted to make sure her African American history class got a taste of using primary sources. The following is a conversation about how her use of CourseWork allowed librarian Ben Stone to participate in her class and augment her students’ experience. How has research influenced the classes that your are teaching? [...]
Human Biology Core and the Assignments tool
Human Biology is a popular major at Stanford University and the Core courses, a 30-unit sequence spanning one academic year, provide the foundation for the major. Central to the Human Biology Core curriculum is teaching students to analyze and apply what they’ve learned, rather than absorb and recall factual data. Using CourseWork in a specific [...]
Germany, World Wars, & the Wiki
Stanford Humanities Fellow Edith Sheffer had an idea of how she could personalize history for her students. This led to an innovative use of the wiki, a tool currently under pilot within CourseWork. The response of her students to this project exceeded her expectations and she plans to repeat the project next fall. The following [...]