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Exterior view of Washington State History Museum in Tacoma

Natural Science in a History Museum: An Exercise to Engage Interdisciplinary, Applied, and Career-Oriented Thinking

Laura L. Behling April 17, 2023

My upper-level course on writing in the natural sciences was filled with technical writing or communication majors developing and honing their skills in writing, presentation, visual communication, and user experience strategies. Most had limited, if any, college-level natural sciences coursework. Students are taught to

Let’s Play a Game: Student-Created Simulations

John A. Tures, Andrew Cunningham, Karson Troth, Jaydon Parrish, Chase Davis, Hannah Godfrey, DeQueze Fryer, Tamino Schoeffer, Daniel Cody, Shedrick Lindsey, Emaleigh Turner, Daniel Cody, Jenna Pittman, and Elijah Rogers April 17, 2023

Simulations are an opportunity for experiential learning, but faculty who use them usually adopt simulations that they created or found. An alternative is to have students create the simulation themselves as a learning activity.

What advantages do student-created simulations offer?

Five Ways to Help Your Students Become Better Critical Thinkers

Louis E. Newman April 10, 2023

I had been teaching for nearly 30 years when I discovered that I had failed to instruct my students in the basics of critical thinking.

My moment of awakening occurred in a conversation with one of the best students in that year’s graduating class.

Ethical Issues with AI in Online Education

John Orlando April 10, 2023

ChatGPT set the education world ablaze with discussion of its implications. The initial worry about students using it to write their assignments was alleviated with detection software such as GPT-2 Output Detector, and the discussion quickly turned to how instructors

Getting beyond the Details: Helping Students Develop a Knowledge Framework

Amy B. Mulnix March 27, 2023

You’re teaching an intro class; it’s three weeks into the semester, and you’ve just returned a high-stakes assessment to the students. The next time you look at your inbox, there’s an abundance of email from students wanting to make appointments because “they worked really

Creating an Engaging and Effective Classroom Experience by Thinking with Things

Sarah Kuhn March 27, 2023

Several years into my 30-year career as a professor, I had an experience that ultimately upended my entire approach to teaching. I came to see the conventional classroom in a whole new way—as a sensory deprivation chamber—and developed a hands-on antidote I call “thinking

Teaching with 360-Degree Video

Eileen M. Grodziak, Kathleen J. Morgan, and Ana I. Serrano-Martinez March 27, 2023

Three hundred sixty–degree (360°) video provides an opportunity for students to have an immersive experience of a location they’re studying in class. Prices have dropped to a point where institutions generally have 360° cameras available for instructors to use. Students can play 360° videos

A Suite of OER Tools to Try in Your Courses

John Orlando March 20, 2023

Two of the most important developments in education over the past 10 years are (1) the emergence of digital tools that allow faculty to assign students new and interesting learning activities and (2) the proliferation of open educational resources (OER) to broaden access to

A More Authentic Online Discussion

John Orlando March 6, 2023

Discussion forums have brought both promise and disappointment to online educators. They promise to allow all students to lend their voice to a discussion without worry of being interrupted or slowing down the class. But they often degenerate into places where students repeat one

Are Discussions Actually Going Well? Making Classrooms More Inclusive

Joe Bookman February 27, 2023

In the life of a professor, what’s more satisfying than a successful class discussion? A classroom abuzz with ideas, students who are energized and alert, sinking their teeth into the assigned material, riffing in surprising, productive ways. Isn’t this why we got into the

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