Most faculty don’t respond enthusiastically to the idea of students doing exam or quiz work together in groups. Nonetheless, the approach is widely used, and
When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. It’s proved itself
If a visitor from another planet dropped in to observe teaching in North America (maybe other places as well), they’d likely conclude that teaching could
Implementation fidelity—it’s another of those academically impressive descriptions that isn’t nearly as profound as it sounds. It relates to whether a strategy or approach is
I think the active learning versus lecture debate is finally moving on to more useful questions than which one is better. Now there’s interest in
Students can learn from and with each other in groups; that’s been well-established in the research. But student learning in groups doesn’t happen automatically, and
Online discussions aren’t a new thing anymore; they regularly occur in online courses and courses with online components. What we’ve learned for sure: they’re a
A recent study found that professors and students aren’t on the same page when it comes to the course syllabus (Lightner & Benander, 2018). How
It’s a great question and not one most of us ask ourselves as often as we should. Is creating or reconstituting a course a design
Almost 70 percent of students in 10 sections of an introductory biology course reported that the instructor provided a justification for using active learning in
