Applying Concepts, Knowledge and Skills in Academic Programs

This session highlights three different strategies for having students apply concepts, knowledge and skills in the classroom. Participants will come away with ideas for incorporating these strategies into their own courses.

Garth Woodruff: “Creative, Semester-long Projects and Their Evaluation”

Tom Lowing, Ariel Solis: “Curricular Integration Using Design Thinking Methods”

The profession of architecture integrates curricular goals into a design thinking strategy. Architects and educators apply critical thinking skills to evaluate outcomes using a studio environment as a common point of reference. Faculty will present how the school has used these methods to integrate subject matter from a variety of topical lecture courses. Participants can investigate how a variety of courses and faculty can relate and integrate an understanding of primary principles and their application into the more comprehensive curricular knowledge base.

Lee Olson: "Evaluating Practical Skills using a Multi-station Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)"