An outstanding source of pathways to big (and small) teaching is the ABLConnect database at Harvard University (http://ablconnect.harvard.edu), which serves as a gathering place of research, examples, and ideas for pedagogical innovation in higher education. ABLConnect distinguishes between two types of learning activities collected within its searchable database: active learning, a term with which you are likely familiar and that would cover just about every teaching strategy described in this book; and activity-based learning, which “involves fieldwork, public service, community-based
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