Let Me Give You an Example

using examples to improve learning
A conversation with Stephen Chew (who keynoted the 2018 Teaching Professor Conference) got me thinking about examples, mostly how I haven’t read or thought much about them. I wonder if that’s true of a lot of faculty. I’m coming up with a number of questions about examples and not as much in the way of answers. Perhaps you can help provide some clarity to this topic.

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