Ecuador tiene una población de 17,5 millones de habitantes, de los cuales 1,5 millones de
jóvenes entre 18 y 29 años viven en zonas rurales. Según datos del INEC, la población
rural envejeció entre 2010 y 2015. Esto se debe a que se cree que las zonas urbanas tienen
mejores oportunidades de empleo, salarios, educación y condiciones labora…[Read more]

Die Folgen des demografischen Wandels sind überaus vielschichtig und längst nicht nur gesundheitlicher, sondern auch wirtschaftlicher, politischer, sozialer und gesellschaftlicher Natur. Einige ländliche Regionen in den neuen Bundesländern sind von diesen Entwicklungen bereits heute spürbar stärker betroffen, als dies in anderen Landesteilen der F…[Read more]

As educators, we are all familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy and the way it progressively maps the cognitive activities involved in learning and constructing knowledge. Too often, however, we educators who work in writing-focused curricula ask our students to work in the higher-order cognitive domains of analysis and creation without necessarily giving…[Read more]

Teaching the fundamentals of writing composition shouldn’t be boring. It should be active, engaging, and EMPOWERING! Most students, whether they consciously articulate it or not, want to vanquish their writing anxiety. They want to develop confidence in their ability to compose and revise strong prose that will help them thrive in coursework and…[Read more]

In courses that end in summative final exams or capstone projects, it can be challenging to get students to pull back and identify the learning that they’ve done across an entire unit or semester rather than only focus on the learning they’ve undertaken most recently. As part of our larger sequence of active-learning-based lesson plans designed to…[Read more]

This semester our library created a new space in our Library, the Mindfulness Corner. Created out of concern for student mental health following the pandemic, the space is intended as a welcoming space for students to study, destress, regain focus, receive comfort and positive affirmations, and practice mindfulness. I will explain how this project…[Read more]

This lightning talk will cover how visual literacy can help us view and use primary sources for research and teaching purposes. We will look at some of the issues when using visual materials, what visual literacy standards can be followed to avoid these issues, and how these interactive objects can tell the stories of people, places, and things.