Teaching

Writing clear, measurable learning objectives for lesson seems simple; it isn't. Here are some steps that can make it easier.

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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.

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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?

1/ I'm a third of the way through "How to be an antiracist" @DrIbram. I see connections to #HigherEd on every page. Something on page 101 broke my brain. By page 103, I think I fixed it. I'm going to try to explain. I may get this wrong. I keep learning, though.

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,...

As we chat about what kind PD looks like, I thought I'd reshare this video I made about breakout rooms: https://t.co/7lQKBPchZz— Karen Costa (@karenraycosta) May 11, 2021

They’re the ones that help people connect to you on a personal level.

If we were debating the merits of synch vs. asynch online learning in terms of 90s boy bands, here is the side I'd be on. https://t.co/3lHyI0HM7x

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.

New research from Frank Castelli & Mark Sarvary: Why students don't turn on their cameras https://t.co/24MpnNEaQE #PPRS21 #edtech #highered #onlinelearning https://t.co/moNoSndiME

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 ...

An education expert suggests good practices teachers can use to build community with students and create a caring climate in their courses.

We’re reaching the end of the semester and if you’re a student, you’ll probably be doing student evaluations and/or filling out rate my professor. I wanted to make a thread about some do’s and dont’s of student evaluations from a professor’s perspective.

Every story is an opportunity to have a conversation with your audience about what journalism is for and how journalists conduct their work. Each type of story presents different questions and different ways to encourage news fluency, in an organic and contextual manner. In this section, we’ll list nine types of stories and the unique […]

Why a professor no longer grades students on how much they speak up in class.

Looking for open access, peer-reviewed distance education journals (other than OLJ and IRRODL). Anyone?— Jon Becker (@jonbecker) April 5, 2021

Q to students: Are you anxious about anything (related to your learning) when you think about returning to a full in-person classroom schedule in the fall? See replies 👇🏼