Students are less engaged, but stop blaming COVID (opinion)
As “digitally evolved knowledge workers,” our students engage differently than the generations before them; as educators, we need to adapt, Jenny Darroch writes.
Analyze This: Creating Student Value through Critical Thinking
I challenge my students to think critically about what we are learning and to reflect on the connection between the content and their values and goals.
Revisiting the cognition-motivation connection: What the latest research says about engaging students in the work of learning
I sometimes tell a story about my first solo book, Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, involving a crisis that hit about 2/3 of the way through writing it. I forget what topic I’d o…
In today’s episode, we discuss how to engage students in face-to-face and online courses before during and after synchronous class times, the use of various reflection strategies, and how to model …
Mindsets: Four Beliefs That Lead to Highly-Motivated Students
With insights into the four beliefs, your instructional practices can help students choose learning goals and academic behaviors that lead to their success
Brain Dump: A small strategy with a big impact – Retrieval Practice
With the end of the semester within sight, we feature a small strategy that makes a big impact on student learning – based on decades of cognitive science research . In scientific lingo, we call it "free recall."
Teaching for Mental Health with Robert Eaton and Bonnie Moon - Intentional Teaching
On today’s podcast, I talk with the authors of a new book that can help college teachers better understand their students as whole people, while also providing lots of advice for instructors who want to better support their students’ learning. Rob...
Using Interleaves, Bookends, and Overlays to Create a More Effective Presentation - The K. Patricia Cross Academy
Teachers and students alike know that lectures can be boring. The following quip, widely attributed to Albert Camus, elegantly captures this sentiment; “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” Yet we – and students – have also experienced situations in which we sat mesmerized as we listened to an exceptionally captivating lecturer. While few of ... Read More
Feedback or Feedforward? It’s All About the Timing
Jennifer Lemke, University of Nebraska at Omaha Chris Wilcoxen, University of Nebraska at Omaha Jeni Langfeld, University of Nebraska at Omaha Key Statement: This article explores feedback structures that contribute to students' understanding and performance. Keywords: Feedback, Timing, Peer Feedback Background As educators, an expectation is to provide feedback to students. This includes any information provided to learners about their performance and understanding of an assignment, task, or ac