An update on the multidisciplinary project at HCC.

“Welcome to the detective’s study. He’s been called away and has asked you to decipher the puzzles he left behind.” With a customizable escape room, Lauran Kerr-Heraly writes in #AHAPerspectives, assessment becomes collaborative and fun.

Hosting a student event featuring the escape room and SciLab. They solved a murder by searching for clues and conducting fingerprinting experiments.

I asked students about their experiences in the classroom. Here are some of their answers.

I am presenting about the experimental classroom as part of the 10th Annual Faculty Awards & Student Engagement Innovation Symposium, which is hosted by the Teaching and Learning Innovation department at Houston Community College. Thanks for attending!

There are two types of discussions that I use that require students to move into groups: Spider Web and Jigsaw. The experimental classroom is great for that because we could arrange the furniture for maximum engagement and active learning.

How students reacted to the first week in our “Coffee Shop” experimental classroom.

Utilizing experimental classrooms to transform learning in higher education.

I’m casting my vote for the 2022 top tools for learning list. Here are my tech favorites.

A classroom turned escape room to increase content knowledge, optimize group dynamics, and have fun.

Year two of the Innovation Fellowship at HCC begins.

Innovation Fellows discuss narratives.

Failure forward, happily.

A quiz and some thoughts.

Definitions and Components