Teaching

After enrolling in an online course during the pandemic, Roger Martin, a former college president, has some suggestions for current leaders about instructional changes they may want to consider.

Podcasts are a versatile medium that have become more and more a part of the higher education landscape. Your students may encounter podcasts alongside other materials in their reading and ...

Recommended books, journals, and podcasts about college teaching and learning

Just getting rolling(already a day behind! argh!) in a week-long @BCcampus FLO Micro-course on Alternative & Authentic Assessment with @NickiRehn and @olaoluadeleye. I'll use this thread to drop in stuff about what I learn throughout the week!

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Are you thinking of implementing mindfulness, breathing, yoga or other wellness-focused social-emotional learning in your classroom? These practices can be powerful ways to develop self-awareness a…

h/t Josh Eyler Two common ways that instructors assess participation in sociology courses are recalling participation by memory or counting times spoken during class in real t...

"To be able to mentor students effectively, we first need self-care in the wake of this global health crisis. Self-care, under these circumstances, is nothing short of an act of defiance in the face of exploitation."

A little strategising can go a long way in increasing contact points with students without sacrificing work-life balance, says Sarah Rose Cavanagh

ok but for real, professors, if you have strong preferences about how your students address you, state them clearly on your syllabus. don't make 'em guess and actually, if you don't have strong preferences about that, state that too. it's stressful for students to have to guess!

You are not a visual learner — learning styles are a stubborn myth. Part of this video is sponsored by Google Search.Special thanks to Prof. Daniel Willingha...

Teaching Distracted Minds: Old Challenges, New contexts @LangOnCourse #EdCog2021 https://t.co/LLuDrGBXDw

We all know Maslow’s famous Hierarchy of Needs. But do we know about the Blackfoot way of life that may have inspired Maslow to develop it?

One of the very best pieces of work in communicating education research is the What Makes Great Teaching report from 2014. Around this time Professor Rob Coe (@ProfCoe), one of the report’s c…

What are the best bets for teachers to invest time and effort in if they want their students to learn more? The Great Teaching Toolkit sets out to answer this question and provide the instruments with which teachers can take ownership of professional learning and to help them enhance their practice for the benefit of students.

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H/T Robert Talbert PDF | Feedback is essential for learning and identifies perceived gaps between students’ observed performance and desired outcomes. In higher education,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

But new bans on "critical race theory" threaten to limit such discussions.

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…

In a context of permanent learning, we are interested in experiences that transcend the conventional spaces used for transferring knowledge.

Education always plays a central role – whether in a visible or a veiled way – in any ideological project. For anyone backing the transformation of the world...

Every well designed lesson, flipped or otherwise, starts with good learning objectives. What do those look like, and how do we write them?

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