Teaching

QR codes can complement the design of more interactive and engaging learning experiences in higher education.

As the school year gets underway this fall, many teachers are wondering how to address the mental health repercussions of the past two years. How can we show up for our students with care at the ce…

“We need to have a talk about rubrics for evaluating effective online learning. They have a tendency to regress to a mean (maybe to a minimum) and are resulting in reductive practices that border on controlling and undermine academic freedom of educators.”

As a new academic year approaches, I urge institutions & educators to abandon online proctoring. It's racist, ableist tech that entrenches pedagogies of policing. Need evidence for abolishing online proctoring? Visit the Against Online Proctoring Library: https://t.co/p27UxMGJ5y— Charles Logan (@charleswlogan) August 14, 2022

“There’s so much you can do to build community in the moments before class and meetings #prezoom. Here’s another example: On a scale of cat, how are you feeling today?”

“The author of this travesty clearly has no idea what DEI means, so we gain very little from pushing back, but since people are reading it, I wanted to address the flippant ?s he asks about whether *all* faculty should be asked to show evidence of working toward DEI goals. 1/x”

In fact, they can be fun and rewarding. Not kidding!

This article of mine appeared in the journal Liberal Education, vol. 93, no. 4, Fall 2007, p. 52-56 and garnered a huge response in the educational community. Death to the Syllabus! {AD}

How do you learn? What kind of teaching is most effective for your learning? Answering the first question matters more than the second, because you can - an...

In this hour long webinar, Drs. Daryl Chow and Scott D. Miller review three steps for using deliberate practice to improve your therapeutic effectiveness. Midway during the recording, they address questions from the participants who joined the webinar live on May 16, 2022.

I learned how to ride a reverse steering bike, by riding it exclusively for two weeks. Here are the results. As a freestyle bmxer I had similar experience with the steering when rolling backward, so that helped. I think rather than over writing old neuro pathways my brain had to disassociate the familiar pathways with the experience, create new ones and apply them to the similar but variant conditions of the reverse steering bike. Fun. Grateful for the experience to learn to ride a all over bike again.

An engineer explores learning to ride a bike that has been modified in a simple way.

Many students have had little experience working in groups in an academic setting. While there are many excellent books and articles describing group processes, this guide is intended to be short and simply written for students who are working in groups, but who may not be very interested in too much detail. It also provides teachers (and students) with tips on assigning group projects, ways to organize groups, and what to do when the process goes awry. Some reasons to ask students to work in groups

AAC&U’s Teaching-Learning-Assessment (TLA) Framework is a web-based tool developed to help campuses build capacity and lead institutional transformation to Ensure Students Are Learning, as part of the Guided Pathways model for student success.

Ok, I have some thoughts on this. Here's a short thread. 🧵 https://t.co/3n8fey4Qp7— Dr. Carly M. Lesoski 🏳️‍🌈😷 (@motheroftheses) July 7, 2022

A MYFest Space for Connecting and Sharing

“This clip of Barak Rosenshine talking about 'higher order thinking skills' is one of the single most important things for teachers to know about learning.”

Academic posters should keep pace with science, not trail behind! It’s time to upgrade and create beautiful and effective academic posters in PowerPoint.

“#OpenEducation friends - are they any #OpenTextbooks that you think are exemplars of diversity and inclusion, and why? #OER”

Words to energize, inspire, and challenge us

An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.