Session Title: Travel/Field Experiences for Student Success
Abstract: During the last 18 years at Marshall University, I have taken my students on 28 international trips. Our conservation focus includes pre-trip content, the student production of educational materials, and the utilization of new assessment techniques/tools. We build small, mixed learning communities among our students that persist. These are reinforced by use of a shared physical space, student led educational outreach, volunteering, and additional local/regional experiences.
Facilitator: Thomas Jones
Knowledge Track: Field Experience, Virtual Room 1
Attributes:
- Classroom structures, projects and/or initiatives that promote student success
- High-impact practices that support success
- Ways to examine and assess the campus and institutional culture and relative impact on student success
- Ways to build a community that inspires a feeling of belonging in students and faculty
- Degree Qualification Profile/University Learning Objectives