Tag Archives: learning

Review: Colgrass Creativity Workshop

by Jeff King, Executive Director, Center for Excellence in Transformative Teaching & Learning Dr. Michael Colgrass, Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy Award-winning author and composer, conducted a workshop on creativity Tuesday morning, March 5, 2013, at the University of Central Oklahoma as part … Continue reading →

Overcoming Fear to Teach Creatively

by Tamara Davis, Department of English, Northern Oklahoma College Fear.  It is such a powerful word.  It is often the deterrent to innovative practice in the classroom.  It is easy to study innovative best practice and much more difficult to … Continue reading →

On Pioneering the Road Already Traveled: Assessment and Accountability

by Steven Harmon Wilson, Dean of Academic Assessment, Tulsa Community College Among the DaVinci Institute’s purposes is to recommend ways to leverage the state’s ample intellectual, cultural, and social resources to promote creativity in Oklahoma. To this end, I was recently tasked … Continue reading →

Cultivating Learner Creativity in an Age of Information Overload

Jeff King, Exec. Dir., Center for Excellence in Transformative Teaching & Learning, University of Central Oklahoma The ease of access to information possessed by the average American student of almost any age today would be unimaginable to teachers only three decades ago. … Continue reading →

What I Teach

Felix J. Aquino, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Oklahoma City Community College Although my day job is being an administrator at Oklahoma City Community College, at least once a year I like to try my hand at teaching a course … Continue reading →