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Four rules for hybrid meetings

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

In 2017 when I was on sabbatical at Steelcase , the Steelcase Education team had an all-hands meeting every Monday morning. Zoom and Teams might have their downsides, but the technology for online meetings is light-years beyond what it was just 5 years ago. to which I would say, of course it is -- for some.

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What it's like to teach in an active learning classroom

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

As most readers know, I spent the 2017-2018 academic year on sabbatical at Steelcase doing research on active learning spaces, which resulted in this comprehensive literature review paper co-authored with architect Anat Mor-Avi. It's a proof-based (read: writing-intensive) course on basic number theory , rings , and fields.

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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

Edsurge

Last fall I started my first day on the job as an embedded faculty member with a corporation—as a scholar-in-residence at Steelcase Education. Actually intern is probably the best lens through which to look at what I’ve been doing at Steelcase for the last eight months. One such practice I saw at Steelcase was remote work.