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The team at 99U follows productivity trends on a daily basis and noticed that every few years, a research study comes along that fundamentally changes the way we think about work. These studies are often conducted over decades and follow people across their careers to offer the rest of us a template to follow for our day-to-day lives. Below are three studies that are behind much of the productivity and creativity advice you read every day.

Trying and doing are two different things. Learning about this distinction is the key to success. Here's how you can do it for yourself.

Strategies which help coordinate speakers during a group presentation.

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A snapshot inside the Seattle Public Library, a place of many good reads and learning! 2019 has been a tremendous year of learning for me. From writing my first full book manuscript to presenting a…

Write a letter to the future and read the public (but anonymous) letters from others

'Implementing #Small-Group #Activities in #Large #Lecture Classes' y examines #student #perceptions regarding the #effectiveness of small-group work ina large lectures - #comprehension #ReduceAnonymity '#studentaccountabilityhttps://t.co/DSAVvmrfsD pic.twitter.com/umUPiH4Eqv— Danielle M Hinton 👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍💻🌍 (@hintondm) January 18, 2019

Choosing the right tech tools for your teaching means making strategic choices, weighing costs against payoffs, and staying laser-focused on your course goals — and that is what this guide aims to help you do.

Here they are: 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her ...

What baby George and Handstands have taught @mwesch about learning #highered #failure #watchthis

Pedagogy is a strange beast Many teachers first hear the word pedagogy when they enter graduate school. Until then, we are surrounded by it — we see it being modeled, enacted, and refined by our teachers — but we don’t talk about it explicitly. The term is foreign, as Cathy Davidson

This is the video I made for the ADE 2015 application. I was ultimately selected for the Class of 2015 in Higher Education, so I guess it could be considered...

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If you’re not familiar with the learning theory of “constructionism” advanced principally by Seymour Papert and now at the heart of the modern-day “maker movement,” th…

We should be deliberately teaching middle and high school students how to manage their devices.