On November 4, 2021, The Teaching Innovation Center hosted a workshop titled “Scale Up: Successful High Enrollment Courses”. The “Scale UP” series focuses on expanding access in undergraduate programs (UP= undergraduate programs). The workshop featured explorations of online and immersion coursework “to scale”, the direction of the growth in the School of Life Sciences, and insights from an EdPlus instructional design team specializing in high enrollment courses. Speakers included: Kate MacCord , PhD, Instructor, SOLS Zachary Shaffer , PhD, Lecturer, SOLS Jill Roter , Principle Instructional Designer, EdPlus Dee Mullins , Instructional Designer, EdPlus Scot Schoenborn , Director of Academic Services SOLS Lenora Ott , Instructional Designer, Teaching Innovation Center What is “scale”? and what is High Enrollment? You may hear the term high enrollment often at ASU and it can mean different things to different people. It might be some magic number at which an instructor is given TA supp...

Donald Meeks, a student at Arizona State University, and creator of "Go Native" , a video game aimed at teaching people how to speak and interact in different countries, opened our webinar on Tuesday, May 3. His comments helped faculty understand how games impacted the way he learned, and how they have the ability to teach new skills by engaging students in problem-solving and immersive environments. (Click here to see Donald's talk) Faculty went on to review research on games and education, define game "elements", and connect what they are already doing in traditional classes with games. Finally, they reviewed 3 case studies, from a fully converted course from Andy Petroski from Harrisburg University into a game, to some of ASU's courses that are making small changes in course assignments and activities to integrate gaming themes like:   "Spore Controversy" - where students play a "science" game and then discuss what it got w...