The Teaching Professor
What would a diverse group of people say if asked, “When you hear the word _________ (fill in the name of your field), what do you think it means?”
Sarah Rose Cavanagh’s book The Spark of Learning (2016) teaches how student control and value ...
The research is clear: students can learn from and with each other in groups. But ...
If you want to increase engagement in your online course, then consider creating an animated-video ...
As I prepared to teach my first-year orientation class this fall, I realized that I ...
One failure of the traditional face-to-face lecture is that it delivers learning content in large ...
Lecture as a pedagogical approach has come under considerable fire in recent years. Indeed, critics ...
Despite the range of functionalities available in most learning management systems (LMSs), faculty and institutions ...
It’s night; a boy bikes alone on a dark, empty forest road, the only sounds ...
Scenario 1: You are in your office, preparing to grade final papers. Students were required ...
As part of our teaching philosophy, we believe in the value of exploring contentious issues ...
Flipgrid is arguably the best-known video hosting and collaboration tool for education. An instructor can ...
If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. Unless you inherited your courses from someone ...
How Can I Engage the Emotions of My Students to Maximize Learning?
This 20-minute session offers practical strategies to engage students’ emotions to enhance deep and meaningful learning in both in-person and online classes. Watch Now »
There's no question that students learn an enormous amount when they assume the role of ...
10/23/2019—This article now includes an update from the author. There is nothing quite like a Friday ...
A new study in Active Learning in Higher Education (see reference below) motivated me to take another look at the research on student self-assessment. It’s decidedly mixed, which isn’t unexpected ...
Sarah Rose Cavanagh’s book The Spark of Learning (2016) teaches how student control and value is central to learning. Control-value theory was first conceptualized by Pekrun (2006), who defined it ...
“As teachers we need to be sure that what we are teaching students does not rob them of their identity or turn them into something they aren’t. Yes, there are procedures and right ways of doing most things and that’s part of what students are in school to learn. But education should be more about cultivating creativity than conformity.”
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