MOTIVATE students to learn

In this exciting new seminar, Laura Malkiewich, PhD in Cognitive Science in Education, will discuss gamification. Laura is one of 2U's internal experts and is a member of our User Experience team. She will explain what gamification is, and why using game design elements to motivate students is both popular and controversial. There will be a review of what makes games fun, and how this links to academic literature on how people learn. She’ll then discuss how certain game design elements affect learning and what you can learn from game design to improve your own live session teaching.

“Why would I give my students writing assignments when they can just get AI to do it for them?” When educators think about “cheating” with AI, usually we’re worried about students letting AI tools do the majority of the work for them. Join this interactive session to learn about the difference between writing to communicate (which generative AI does fairly well) and writing to learn (which is often the chief reason we assign writing in the first place). We’ll discuss Writing to Learn activities that can structure and nurture students’ thinking, including during Live Sessions, in asynchronous discussion posts, and in courses that don’t rely on major writing assignments.