When students feel their education is personalized – when it’s right for them, aware of and sensitive to their background, interests, and goals – they respond with engagement; engagement which emerges naturally as a result of relevance, attention, and a sense of belonging.
“Design-based research is a way forward, a way to take research in a very practical sense from the laboratory to the real world and create things of meaning and value that will live in the real world and inform the work that we have to do as academics building better futures.”
Professor Gautam Kaul at the Ross School of Business has created a new series of online courses called Introduction to Finance: Valuation and Investing. This series
The Medical School at U-M has been rethinking the classroom, including experimenting with modular content and video conferencing to bring students together in one place. Simultaneously, many medical school faculty are experimenting with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) by taking content from the classroom and exploring how it can be enriched by sharing with broader audiences.
Margaret Wooldridge has been able to transfer a University of Michigan experience from here on campus to a global audience while at the same time gathering experience and examples to bring back to U-M.
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