Serendip is an independent site partnering with faculty at multiple colleges and universities around the world. Happy exploring!

a digital ecosystem

 

Looking for the current Serendip home page? This page is the archived home page from 2006-2012.

people

Ingrid taught for many years in the Biology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, she teaches K-12 teachers in a variety of professional development settings. Her teaching emphasizes actively engaging students in order to foster understanding of important biological concepts. She and her colleagues have developed multiple minds-on activities for teaching biology and...

change

The Breaking Project explores radical change in life and thought. “Breaking” signals things coming apart so that new combinations become possible. Breaking is the start of revision. How do people do it? What is it good for?

Past, Present & Future
“Inhale the future. Exhale the past.”

mixing

Blended Learning "mixes" online and classroom instruction to more effectively engage students. Does this approach work for liberal arts colleges as well as larger university settings? What resources are available for faculty to develop a blended course? 

This site is designed to help reduce start-up costs by making it easier for faculty to find and share information about materials and techniques that work for blended learning in a liberal arts college setting.