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Building Better Communities with President Grace Wang
WPI President Grace Wang made a recent guest appearance on the Building Better Communities podcast with WPI alum and Board of Trustee member Bob Hart ’79. Hart’s podcast highlights the importance of community and how business can help strengthen and improve communities. Wang and Hart discussed the importance of higher education in creating strong communities and how internal and external partnerships make an impact through innovative ideas and engineering and technology solutions—even including artificial intelligence.
PBL 5-Part Podcast Series on The Academic Minute, WAMC National Production
Maximizing Learning through High-Impact Practices | Kris Wobbe
This podcast examines the unique contribution of five high-impact practices (HIPs) on a range of outcomes confirming that stacking HIPs over time provides unique benefits to students.
Project-Based Learning: More Is Better | Kimberly LeChasseur
This podcast explores the dosage effects of project-based learning—the amount of a particular type of learning experience an individual must have to receive the potential benefits.
The Unexpected (and Expected) Benefits of Projects in the Humanities | Ryan Madan
This podcast examines the impact of a Humanities or Arts capstone project on several outcomes and whether it might amplify learning of technical skills for engineering students.
Failing Forward with Project-Based Learning | Sarah Stanlick
This podcast examines initial struggles with project-based learning and the impact on subsequent project experiences highlighting the differences between satisfaction and learning.
Projects Narrow Self-Efficacy Gaps for Women | Lindsay Davis
This podcast examines project-based learning’s effectiveness on self-efficacy with women, suggesting that PBL can be an attractive pedagogy for recruiting and retaining women in STEM.
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