It’s the start of August which, for schools on the semester system, means that instructors are starting to construct their fall syllabi, anticipating the start of yet another academic year. H…

Flipped learning is great for students, but it can be tough on faculty because it requires a significant shift in the way we think about using time and space for teaching. It also requires a different approach to lesson planning, and this can be a major choke point on the

One idea that I encounter a lot in higher education workshops is the idea of learning styles: that some people are “visual learners” that learn best by looking at visual representations of information, and other people that learn best from reading, or from listening to lectures, and that those are traits we are born with. […]

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Critical thinking is discussed extensively in higher education research literature, especially through theories about how to define, measure, and develop “higher-order” cognitive skills. However, there is a less substantial body of scholarship exploring the connection between educational practices and critical thinking research. How is critical thinking being taught at colleges and universities, and how can educators use research to improve teaching practices?

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About a month into each semester, Gayle Golden sets aside a little time to ask her students about their learning.The journalism instructor at the ...

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Five simple questions can generate some highly useful, rich, and informative data about student engagement in a course.

Looking for resources (not replies, but links/research/posts) about the psychology of deadlines: how they hurt, how they help, how to make them flexible w/o decreasing focus/motivation. Anything welcome! To share w/ fac who're probing challenges of relaxing/eliminating deadlines.

Inclusive teaching might argue for assessments other than exams, but how might we make an exam more inclusive? I'm looking for examples of inclusive exams, if there is such at thing. Seen any?

As "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda kicks off a three-week run of his Tony Award-winning musical in Puerto Rico today, his eighth grade English teacher,...

Reflections on keynote presentation during the first science session of the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit Our Planet, Our Future. The first Nobel Prize Summit brou...

Here’s what students hope you’ll keep doing in the fall — and what they hope you’ll drop.

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Description: As we pass the tragic milestone of a year since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher ed is in a collective mourning process that compounds personal loss with grief for the ways we used to teach, to learn together, to see each other in the halls without masks, and to advance our shared […]

For this Microfiction writing option, the idea is to take a 100-word story you have already written (here's the Microfiction writing option ...