The Teaching Professor
Last September, we issued a call for information on handouts—how do you use them, how well do they work, what learning goals are they especially well-suited to accomplish? As with ...
Free riders—those who don’t do their fair share of work in a group—frustrate students, especially ...
To help direct students in their learning during the pandemic, we as faculty have been ...
Plagiarism detection reports from companies such as Turnitin are the primary way that faculty identify ...
In recent years, student dropout rates in STEM programs have received a lot of attention. ...
Research has demonstrated that visuals improve learning for many students. Medina (2008) notes that “we ...
I am proposing an assignment that grows out of an interesting piece of research (Neu, ...
Do you see the same problems in student assignments time after time? Do you find ...
I recently had the great pleasure of reading Bill Bryson’s new book, The Body: A ...
When you use group work—say, for a project or assignment—do you appoint group leaders? André (2011) was under the impression that most of us use leaderless groups, and that hunch ...
In this video, Megwen Loveless introduces four tried-and-true techniques to create a learning environment that is literally buzzing with student conversation.
“The larger issue behind [the online versus face-to-face learning] debate is what conditions make for a high-quality educational experience, one that is effective, efficient, engaging, socially just, and meaningful and isn't exploitative, unfair, or available only to those who can afford it. . . . Ultimately, the value of an online course or degree rests upon its design and the strategies it employs rather than its modality.”
—George Veletsianos, Learning Online: The Student Experience
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