Key Takeaways: Mobile technology offers the ability to combine immediate access to information and location through augmented reality and geotagging. Dickinson College students in a summer study-abroad program partnered with...
Games provide opportunities for students to actively apply and build their understandings of concepts. This presents great potential for online students, who must engage with course content on their own schedules. At North...
This article argues small departments are ideal laboratories for innovative structures of collaboration. Beginning with the smallest nit—an individual teacher “collaborating with herself” to mine good ideas from one course to...
For more information on the published version, visit The Escapist's Website., A student came to my office last week and asked for help setting up a LAN game of Civ IV in one of the college's computer labs. He was going to play...
This case study describes the integration of language exchanges into the Japanese program at Dickinson College, USA. The oral synchronous exchanges used Skype, the Japanese social networking site Mixi, and a website developed...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Academic Common's Website., Bryant, Todd. "From Age of Empires to Zork:...
This essay locates forensics within national discourse about high-impact practices (HIPs) in higher education, as outlined by scholar George D. Kuh. Forensics shares all the characteristics associated with the ten promising...
Internationalizing the Writing Center provides a rationale, pedagogical plan, and administrative method for developing a multilingual writing center. The book incorporates work from writing center studies as well as second...
Why use computer games in a liberal arts educational context? In general, their educational potential is recognized because there is significant evidence that “learning is most effective when it is active, experiential,...
Jackson, David P., Julia Huddy, Adam Baldoni, and William Boyes. The Mysterious Spinning Cylinder---Rigid-Body Motion That is Full of Surprises. American Journal of Physics 87, no. 2 (2019): 85-94....