September 29, 2017
The Student Undergraduate Research Council (SURC) is a group of student ambassadors in Undergraduate Research (OUR), a part of the Division of Teaching and Learning. They come from various majors and conduct research in topics ranging from biodiversity to artificial intelligence to surgical robots. Members have participated in summer programs at other universities including MIT,…
September 18, 2017
Foundational scholars in the field of integrative learning, Mary Huber and Pat Hutchings write, “One of the great challenges in higher education is to foster students’ abilities to integrate their learning across contexts and over time.” In order to encourage students to connect skills learned inside the classroom to experiences outside the classroom, the Quality…
September 7, 2017
“Once In My LIFE” was a devised theatre project that partnered undergraduate performance majors at the University of Central Florida and senior citizen members of UCF’s Learning Institute for Elders. The project was conceived by Claudia Schippert, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Philosophy at UCF, who recognized that the senior citizens who participated in LIFE…