Student Engagement & Interactive Teaching: Breaking Down Classroom Barriers to Risk Taking

Speaker:  Richard Cox
                 Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
                 Instructor, d.school, Stanford University

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, Rich looked at creativity exercises, the assumptions they hold about teaching in higher education, and the methods for creating a safe environment that increases participation and ensures that the learning objectives are met.

About the Speaker:

Rich Cox is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business and instructor at the d.school, Stanford University. His classes focus on acting with power, improvisation and creativity and innovation. He is also a guest instructor at London Business School and Aalto University in Helsinki teaching leadership and innovation.

Rich’s Management Consulting Firm, People Rocket, combines Art+Science+Design to bring disruptive elegance to Business, Organizations and Ventures and create better people, teams, and cultures.

Organized by: Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching (CELT) in collaboration with Student Innovation for Global Health Technology (SIGHT)

Workshop Materials:

• Video