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For the Session Long Project, you will be exploring your role as a junior faculty member in Higher Education in an online learning environment. The project requires you to examine your role in terms of designing courses for students to ensure that they are provided with a meaningful learning experience in their education. You will also be formulating assessment strategies for the courses you design.

For the First Component of the Session Long Project (Module 1):

Write a 4-5 page paper in which you restructure an undergraduate-level course in Higher Education with 18 students enrolled. The Department Chair has delegated you with the task of stimulating learning due to declining enrollment.

  1. Would it be possible to have students working together in groups? If so, would you have students work in groups?
  2. Assess the advantages and disadvantages of a project-centered approach.
  3. Provide a justification for how student learning would be meaningful.

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Chen, N., Kinshuk, Wei, C., & Liu, C. (2011). Effects of matching teaching strategy to thinking style on learner’s quality of reflection in an online learning environment. Computers & Education, 56(1), 53-64. 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.08.021

Miller, A. R. (2016). Learning and leading: Transformational learning experiences among college student peer leaders

Pevsner, D., Sanspree, M. J., & Allison, C. (2012). Teaching strategies for learning styles of students with visual impairments. Insight, 5(2), 59.

Santis, P. D., & Willis, O. (2016). from karamzin to putin: Transformative learning in practice.International Journal of Arts & Sciences, 9(3), 53.