Author: Stefanie Goyette An image from Plato’s Phaedrus: the lovely Phaedrus invites Socrates to walk with him outside the walls of Athens and to read the text of…
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Published November 12, 2015 by am2759
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Authors: Philip Kain • Sean Eve On June 30th and July 1st, 2015, Liberal Studies held a symposium in London, bringing together instructors from nine NYU sites around the globe to…
Published November 2, 2015 by am2759
Authors: Brian Culver • Nancy Reale How do we incorporate a diverse curriculum intelligently into syllabi that are already overloaded? This has been a long-standing question asked by every instructor teaching…
Read More From Class Plan to Blended Classroom: Making Screencasts for Teaching Music
Published October 19, 2015 by am2759
Author: Johann K. Jaeckel Recently, I started using a new teaching technique in my Principles of Economics course. The course starts with an introduction to the canonical models of production,…
Read More Demonstrating Coordination Problems with a Classroom Experiment
Published October 15, 2015 by am2759
Authors: Philip Kain • Andres Walliser On June 30th and July 1st, 2015, Liberal Studies held a symposium in London, bringing together instructors from nine NYU sites around the globe…
Published October 7, 2015 by am2759
Author: Eliya Ribak When asked to observe and interpret material culture or music, students are often at a disadvantage, which is why I emphasize material culture interpretation in my Cultural…
Published September 17, 2015 by am2759
Authors: Philip Kain • Suzanne Menghraj On June 30th and July 1st, 2015, Liberal Studies held a symposium in London, bringing together instructors from nine NYU sites around the globe to…
Published September 15, 2015 by am2759
Author: Kevin Bonney The case study teaching method, long used in business and medical education to promote critical thinking and active learning, can also be an effective teaching strategy…
Read More Case Study Teaching in Science and Liberal Arts Education
Published September 15, 2015 by am2759
Author: Dr Ruchama Johnston-Bloom Teaching great texts and big ideas from the medieval and early modern periods in Social Foundations II in London, I sense that freshman often do not…
Published September 15, 2015 by am2759
Authors: Lucy Appert • Afrodesia McCannon • Bob Squillace Because Liberal Studies offers the same required core courses across five different sites around the world, each in a major urban center,…