Although still not at all that widely used, there’s long-standing interest in letting students work together on quizzes or exams. Upon first hearing about the
Students don’t always like working in groups. Ann Taylor, an associate professor of chemistry at Wabash College, had a class that was particularly vocal in
There’s been a noticeable increase in the amount of pedagogical literature that references what’s been documented about learning in cognitive psychology. It seems to be
First impressions are important and you can make favorable ones on the first day of class by doing things just a bit out of the
I like how blogging lets us stir up ideas, watch them simmer, and taste the results.
I’ll start this mix of ideas with Amy
Preparing for a keynote at a polytechnic institute got me thinking about those readers who teach students how to do something, not something abstract like
For many faculty, adding a new teaching strategy to our repertoire goes something like this. We hear about an approach or technique that sounds like
While preparing for a Teaching Professor Conference session on facilitating classroom discussions (much of which applies to online exchanges), I’ve been reminded yet again of
Many students do not
Spoon-feeding: it’s a familiar metaphor that implies doing too much for students, doing what they should be doing for themselves, and making something easier than
