UO Online Explores: The Pedagogy of Play 

 Friday, October 21, 1:00-2:30 pm in the Knight Library DREAM Lab  

This workshop explores “play” as a creative pedagogical tool with serious potential. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, will be to evaluate the merits of play in the online classroom. How might the theory and practice of play energize student engagement and inspire authentic learning experiences without sacrificing the rigor essential to the courses we teach? What does it mean to play with purpose when teaching an online course, and what are the constraints involved? Besides deliberating on these questions and others, workshop attendees can expect to collaborate in the development of playful strategies and activities of immediate use to their classes and the students they teach. The main event will be 1:00-2:00 pm; the final half-hour will be for hands-on help with your online course. 

The event is part of UO Online’s Fall series exploring the theme of student engagement in online courses. The series spotlights how we, as educators, can create opportunities for students to have substantive choices about what and how they learn and the path to get there. Through three events, we invite open discussion about our students taking ownership of their education, both individually and collectively.