Teaching

Many professors are struggling to connect with their students these days. First the pandemic forced emergency remote learning, where professors had ...

Postdigital Science and Education - ‘Pedagogy first’ has become a mantra for educators, supported by the metaphor of the ‘pedagogical horse’ driving the ‘technological...

It takes a village... Reflections on sustainable learning design - from educationalist.substack.com; The Educationalist by Alexandra Mihai Excerpt: For the purpose of this article I want to look at learning design in a more holistic way, as a practice that takes place at institutional level. Because we are actually not designing the learning, we are designing for learning. It’s

Dave makes the point that we do all this stuff before we ever meet the students... My point? In addition to his... How hard it is to do all the stuff beforehand, particularly if there's nothing to go from in existence. Course design the way I learned... a flowchart. It's for week three of our introduction of Humanizing Digital Learning course we're teaching this week. Draft ver. 1. pic.twitter.com/zRnBjLjCLR— dave cormier (@davecormier) May 22, 2023

by Derek Bruff, visiting associate director This spring CETL hosted a faculty learning community on the topic of active learning in large STEM courses. Over a dozen faculty from biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and other departments met every other week, mostly on Zoom, to share and discuss shared challenges teaching large courses, particularly introductory courses. […]

Read about the most important research into how we learn conducted in the last 50 years, what it found, and what that means in the classroom for teachers.

What do students say about alternative grading?

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Canva for Education is the world’s largest free, online design platform that enables teachers and students to easily create beautiful and engaging designs. Bring your ideas to life with over 60,000 ready-to-use educational templates including: worksheets, lesson plans, presentations, posters, newsletters, class schedules, book reports, infographics and more. In this session, Jason Wilmot, Head of Canva for Education, will share how to get Canva set-up through your Canvas LMS. Then, George Lee, Master Educator, will share examples of how teachers and students are using Canva to transform learning in both face-to-face and virtual environments. For more Videos & Insights, visit the Instructure Study Hall: https://www.instructure.com/canvas/resources Get Canvas for Dummies: Everything You Need to Know! https://www.instructure.com/canvas/resources/articles/canvas-lms-for-dummies Interested in Canvas LMS? Get more info here: https://www.instructure.com/canvas/higher-education/platform/products/canvas-lms Check out the Canvas Community for more tips! https://community.canvaslms.com/ Listen to the Canvascasters wherever you get your podcasts! https://anchor.fm/canvascasters Follow us on Social Media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/CanvasLMS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CanvasLMS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/canvaslms/ #Canvas #EdTEch

Remote teaching created a unique opportunity to study the experiences of faculty participating in a course design institute. Hundreds enrolled in our online institute, where technologies (e.g., Zoom, Canvas, Google Docs) facilitated interactions among participants and preserved their ideas and perspectives throughout the program. Using a grounded theory analysis approach attentive to the participants’ words, the authors uncovered participants’ experiences and their perspectives on the structures that shaped those experiences. The data ultimately revealed five themes (pedagogical knowledge, student perspective, community and connection, technology, and emotion) that relate to changes in participant attitudes, perceptions, and/or pedagogical approaches. Drawing on these themes, we identify implications for future professional development programming design that align with other results from the literature, including the importance of modeling the student experience, deliberately addressing community and connection, building in time for synthesis and commitment, and prompting faculty to identify and reflect on their emotions. Though some of the identified themes may have been more visible because data were captured in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, these themes are aligned with prior research and existing learning theories and will apply to the design of course design institutes beyond the context of crisis situations.

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him.That became clear ...

h/t Josh Eyler Grading refers to the symbols assigned to individual pieces of student work or to composite measures of student performance on report cards. This review of over 100 years of research on grading considers five types of studies: (a) early studies of the reliability of grades, (b) quantitative studies of the composition of K-12 report card grades, (c) survey and interview studies of teachers’ perceptions of grades, (d) studies of standards-based grading, and (e) grading in higher education. Early 20th century studies generally condemned teachers’ grades as unreliable. More recent studies of the relationships of grades to tested achievement and survey studies of teachers’ grading practices and beliefs suggest that grades assess a multidimensional construct containing both cognitive and non-cognitive factors reflecting what teachers value in student work. Implications for future research and for grading practices are discussed.

If you insist on using tools to detect AI-generated text in student work at least do so in an open and transparent way.

Sitting with this. Curious what others are thinking and feeling. #HigherEd #FacDev #Belonging https://t.co/TnaxjbngCA— Karen Costa (she/her) (@karenraycosta) May 5, 2023

h/t Ludmila - the article she likes the most regarding the science of learning

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“Students said those emails mattered. The reason, though, is pretty demoralizing: They were pleasantly surprised to hear from professors, because they usually don’t.”⁦@becksup⁩ Teaching: Could a few emails from you boost student success? https://t.co/GdqSOHa5jR— Kelly Hogan (@DrMrsKellyHogan) April 20, 2023

If a student is actively trying to be engaged, does that count as being engaged? Why / why not?— Tim Fawns (@timbocop) April 17, 2023

For anyone looking to finally solve that age old question of whether online or face-to-face learning is better, I've made this amazing, time-saving infographic. pic.twitter.com/zicJcimLTr— Tim Fawns (@timbocop) April 13, 2023

Although Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is commonly heard of in higher education, most are implementing it at the level of individual interactions or

“Meritocracy musings: Successful people, including scholars, want to believe their status is earned. @DLAbaree is honest enough to tell a different story about his own career trajectory: https://t.co/8EO9diBGSh. This passage on teaching/assessing jumped out at me:”

h/t Josh Eyler This professor, whose father died when she was an undergrad, supports her students as she wishes she had been