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Cassidy, Alice; Fox, Joanne – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2013
A group facilitation technique called World Café usually involves dividing a large number of people into smaller groups at tables, exploring a variety of topics around a key focus, and collecting ideas from the discussions to debrief later as a large group. We used a modified version of World Café during the new Cracker Barrel session format at…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Group Discussion, Conferences (Gatherings), Teaching Methods
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Pritchard, Peggy; Thomas, Dan – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2010
Most faculty will agree that students must learn to write well (Emerson, MacKay, MacKay, & Funnell, 2006), and in the sciences, a variety of approaches have been taken. In the College of Physical and Engineering Science at the University of Guelph, we have developed a way of embedding research, writing, and analytical skills into an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Area Writing, Physical Sciences, Engineering Education