Do students master and retain course content and develop collaboration skills differently through in-person and online simulation classes? This paper explores whether students retain content learned t...

Simulations are an excellent tool for teaching and have been used in many disciplines including in various subfields of political science, notably in international relations. We focus on the value of ...

Because the subfield of political theory deals primarily with abstract concepts and arguments, students in political theory courses often have difficulty understanding the relationship between primary...

Mobilizing people is hard as the literature shows. However, the challenge of mobilization is not always clear to students. The collective action problem and challenges of risk can be difficult t...

This short paper outlines a structured approach to triangulate between what we want students to learn, what they need to accomplish to achieve these goals, and what can (or cannot) be done within the ...

Numerous scholars have recognized the benefits of utilizing case studies as settings for active learning simulations. We present an original simulation of the War of Austrian Succession designed to te...

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is an emotionally charged, and politically salient, subject on college campuses across the United States. This poses serious challenges for scholars and students that...

We find that students often struggle to grasp the key differences that doing analysis at a systemic, state or individual level can have on the important factors in international relations or the diffe...

This paper compares indicators of student engagement across different sections of a first-year seminar taught in Fall 2017. As part of an active learning pedagogy, students in the author’s sections ...