Fostering Growth Mindset

Fostering Growth Mindset < Back to Quick Reference Guides Overview and Introduction: The WHAT and WHO Growth Mindset is a concept introduced by Carol S. Dweck in her 2007 book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success [1]. Individuals with a “growth mindset” believe...

Flipped Learning

Flipped Learning < Back to Quick Reference Guides Overview and Introduction: The WHAT and WHO ‘Flipped Learning’ is a pedagogical approach that changes the way students engage with their learning by reversing the order of the traditional lecture and assignment...

Generation Z

Generation Z < Back to Quick Reference Guides Overview and Introduction: The WHAT and WHO Generation Z (also known as Gen Z; Zoomers) are today’s college students, born between 1996 and 2010, who have unique defining moments, attitudes, communication preferences,...

Icebreakers

Icebreakers < Back to Quick Reference Guides Overview and Introduction: The WHAT and WHO College students come from a variety of backgrounds, each bringing with them their own personalities, interests and motivation for learning.  Many of them are strangers and may...

Metacognition

Metacognition < Back to Quick Reference Guides Overview and Introduction: The WHAT and WHO Metacognition can simply be defined as thinking about the contents and processes of one’s own mind. Thinking about thinking. Within learning sciences and education research,...