One major impediment to learning is the “forgetting curve,” the fact that people rapidly forget what they learn without reinforcement (Smolen et al., 2016). Assessments
When students come to class without understanding the assigned reading, I often assume that they didn’t do it. While this can be the case, I
One of the fundamental tenets of higher education is that students should take notes on what their instructor says in order to study from those
Storytelling is one of the most powerful means of communication as it can captivate the audience, improving retention of the information. It also offers students
Higher education has long recognized the value of Socratic dialogue in learning. Law schools traditionally adopt it in their teaching, with instructors more often asking
During World War II, the US Department of Defense wanted to make planes that were strong enough to resist bullets but light enough to move
Video is arguably the most powerful, attention-grabbing way to communicate online. But developing video has traditionally required sophisticated equipment and expertise that is beyond the
As teachers, we often focus on the product of our work to the exclusion of the process of creating that product. That is, we talk
A variety of factors can undermine performance on a test beyond lack of knowledge, such as anxiety and misinterpretations of the questions. But there are
During my first few years of teaching, I made the classic mistake of adopting a “covering content” mentality. I planned my classes in terms of
