Errors are an inevitable part of learning. But many students perceive mistakes as threats to their self-esteem, associating them with failure rather than growth. By
Instructors in face-to-face courses can roughly gauge how well students understand the material by facial expressions and audience response systems. This immediate and informal feedback
Many of us know by now that didactic lecture is incongruent with student learning: receiving information passively tends to disengage students, which is likely to
While many of us know by now that lecture alone is incongruent with student learning, it remains the predominant form of teaching—and understandably so. Pedagogical
As educators, we assume that students are learning what we teach. But students often do not learn as much as we expect, and high-stakes assessments
