October 9, 2024 – UAF Center for Teaching and Learning

Presentations & Events, The MILL

MILL Makerspace Inktober Challenge

A Mindpecker and Stymphalian Bird from the Fantasy Birds Guide, by Shayla Sackinger

This month we are participating in Inktober. The challenge of consistently responding to a daily drawing prompt throughout the month. “Inktober is a month long art challenge created by artist Jake Parker that is focused on improving skill and developing…

Zach Cureton-Hazard
October 9, 2024

Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Transformative Learning in Your Class

Climbers at the top of an outcropping, overlooking a boreal forest.

In the summer of 2012 the University of Alaska Board of Regents approved revisions to Policy 01.01.030 — University of Alaska Fairbanks Mission Statement and University of Alaska Fairbanks Core Themes. Contained therein was this vision statement: "Excellence through transformative experiences." How can we aspire to such a lofty goal? What is the intersection with teaching and learning? And, how might you go about fostering such things in your courses?

Dan LaSota
October 9, 2024