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to come to campus. During the summer months, students may be returning home, working a summer job, completing an internship, or participating in other activities that draw them away from campus. Online summer courses extend the PLU learning experience beyond the confines of campus and offer schedule flexibility. In a summer 2016 survey of online students, 88% of respondents reported satisfaction with the online format of their course. “I liked being able to work around my own schedule, with work

Instructional Resources, Part 1: Variety is the Spice of [Student] Life Posted by: bodewedl / March 15, 2016 March 15, 2016 By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer One way to increase student engagement with course content is to promote a variety of instructional resources that provide multiple perspectives or methods of delivery. When planning instructional content, consider how content posted online can enhance the learning taking place in the classroom. Online instructional content can

faculty about teaching, learning, and technology. I often stumble upon great ideas that I would love to share with the PLU community. I know many of you also have ideas to share, so I have started a Twitter hashtag to facilitate this process. (Don’t know much about Twitter? Learn the basics here.) #PLUteaching is a place to share photos, videos, articles, blog posts, insights, and ideas with faculty teaching at our university. The hashtag can be used to highlight some the wonderful things going on in

complete an internship/industry experience and/or courses in business, economics, history and ethics. “Project-based learning is a different kind of learning than in-class learning and adds a different kind of value to a student’s degree,” said Bogomil Gerganov, associate professor of physics. “Internships and apprenticeships are extremely valuable training for future engineers, and students with such experience are more attractive job and graduate school candidates.” To fulfill the engineering

Renzhi Cao innovates in the classroom Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Lisa Patterson ’98ResoLute ContributorIf you search for the CV of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Renzhi Cao, Ph.D., you’ll find a list of published research papers longer than Foss Field. He says it’s a great feeling when a new piece of research is published. But what he finds most rewarding is bringing his students alongside and sharing with them the value of hard work, hands-on learning

PLU’s students of color feel a greater sense of belonging. Because one of our main goals is for Pacific Lutheran University to become known for inclusive excellence—a welcoming community that engages all of its diversity in the service of student and organizational learning—I would like to delve into each a little more deeply. What is belonging, and why is it important? Belonging refers to students’ sense of being accepted, valued and supported in an educational setting. It is about being valued as

after schools closed. And thousands of miles away in San Antonio, Texas, kindergarten teacher Caitlyn Zwang ’09 was halfway through spring break when she realized that “something was going to happen,” she says. It did. For these three PLU graduates and public school teachers, the COVID-19 pandemic changed classrooms, instruction, and learning. But it also brought new opportunities for teachers and students alike.Spring 2020: The Virus Arrives Most U.S. teachers had to get acquainted with Zoom

from remediation to advanced learning, reviewing to previewing, to sharing insightful demonstrations. Do you strive to meet the diverse needs of students in your course?  Videos can be posted online to provide remediation for students needing a review of foundational concepts.  And for your advanced students, more challenging topics can be posted to help take their learning to the next level.  Many of these resources already exist on sites like TedEd and Kahn Academy. Do you waste a lot of time at

(grammar and spelling). While these procedural requirements are important, I believe they shouldn’t hold the same weight as the actual content of a post. And yet, rubric criteria often weighted mechanics equal to critical thinking. It seems to me that the central goal of an assessment is to demonstrate mastery of learning objectives more than mastery of secondary processes. In short, what you say is more important than how you say it.   I can already hear the arguments against this philosophy. However

internship/industry experience and/or courses in business, economics, history and ethics.  “Project-based learning is a different kind of learning than in-class learning and adds a different kind of value to a student’s degree,” said Bogomil Gerganov, associate professor of physics. “Internships and apprenticeships are extremely valuable training for future engineers, and students with such experience are more attractive job and graduate school candidates.” To fulfill the engineering internship/industry