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Learning Spaces RITG Blog

Pomona’s Hidden Teaching and Learning Spaces

 A visit to the Foreign Language Resource Center (FLRC), one of the various departmental labs at Pomona  As we quest to innovate and use technology to enhance teaching and learning at Pomona College, sometimes this requires the use of spaces that exceed the abilities of our technology-enhanced classrooms so we can better work with and…

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Faculty Story RITG Blog

Ungrading Pomona’s Immunology Course – An Interview with Professor Sharon Stranford

As the group in ITS that collaborates with Pomona College faculty to bring excellence, enhanced by technology, to scholarship and pedagogy, we stay up to date with educational research and the technologies that underpin the most effective pedagogies. One topic that’s been on fire lately in educational research literature is ungrading. Ungrading removes the traditional and…

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Student Insights

Student Reflections on Teaching Practices Worth Keeping in a Post-Pandemic Pomona

Like most colleges across the nation, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pomona College shifted to online-only instruction and remained that way for two semesters. As a liberal arts college, Pomona’s raison d’etre is in the high quality of undergraduate in-person teaching, something that distance learning imperiled. To maintain the thriving student-professor interaction that characterized on-campus learning,…