2020: Student Success and the Public Good

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Undergraduate Public Scholarship: Blogs and Infographics Replacing Quizzes and Presentations

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writing; public understanding

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The focus of this presentation is on ways to adjust assignments for online and in-person courses to include public scholarship. They describe the challenges and successes experienced adapting assignments in an online and in-person section of an upper level Human Development and Family Studies undergraduate course. How to help students think about the ways that knowledge is communicated to target audiences and to assess needs in order to provide information most likely to be helpful. Specifically, they demonstrate student learning through blogging, infographics, and social media posting. Inclusion of public-facing assignments allows students to exhibit that they are familiar with course materials, able to teach the materials to others, and dialog on topics that matter to them.

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Undergraduate Public Scholarship: Blogs and Infographics Replacing Quizzes and Presentations

The focus of this presentation is on ways to adjust assignments for online and in-person courses to include public scholarship. They describe the challenges and successes experienced adapting assignments in an online and in-person section of an upper level Human Development and Family Studies undergraduate course. How to help students think about the ways that knowledge is communicated to target audiences and to assess needs in order to provide information most likely to be helpful. Specifically, they demonstrate student learning through blogging, infographics, and social media posting. Inclusion of public-facing assignments allows students to exhibit that they are familiar with course materials, able to teach the materials to others, and dialog on topics that matter to them.

https://newprairiepress.org/cecd/engagement/2020/11