Teaching and Learning

In our free resources, written by cognitive scientists, we condense research on teaching strategies, why they enhance learning, and how to implement them in the classroom.

Gu i d e t o A s s e s sme n t C y c l e | 7 Step 3: SLO Alignment to Program and Institution SLOs •Once SLO statements are written for courses, responsible for the discipline faculty align specific course student learning outcomes to Program Learning Outcomes and further to Institutional Learning Outcomes. These are skills and competencies acquired by students at the program and institutional levels usually in a sequence of courses that constitute a program.•While Course Outline of Records delineates specific course level outcomes, program learning outcomes may come from a variety of documents that provide specific guidelines from outside of our institutions. Depending on the discipline, those could be Board of Registered Nursing, American Psychological Association, the Association of Computer Engineers and Technicians, just to give some examples. These will help specify skills and competencies that students finishing programs should possess.•Just like is the case with course level outcomes, a thorough and in-depth analysis of program learning outcomes needs to be performed to establish links and alignment between course level outcomes and competencies and skills exhibited by students completing the given program.•Institutional level outcomes (ILOs) need to be aligned with institution’s mission and vision statements. ILOs are usually broader competencies such as: critical thinking, leadership, problem solving, or communication skills and they can be found in subject matter of any discipline and should be of interest to all stakeholders throughout the institution. After all, we all want our students to manifest critical thinking, empathy, and collaboration skills upon graduation regardless of the program they completed.

The belief in learning styles is so widespread, it is considered to be common sense. Few people ever challenge this belief, which has been deeply ingrained i...

Due to the covid-19 crisis, I have been getting more inquiries about trauma-informed teaching in higher education. So I created this presentation to provide ...

Introduction to the problem When you open the Canvas mobile apps, they keep you logged in, even if you put the app to the background or close it completely. This behavior adds convenience for the users and is typically what we expect from a mobile application in 2022. But many times convenience come...

I'm sure over 90% of people know some of these tricks but I always like to share stuff just in case someone doesn't know some ways to get things back in Canvas. Recovering things in a course As a former Blackabord admin I always got that cold feeling in my stomach when someone would call me to tell...

“I read an interesting alternative theory from a scientist last week. He was saying that the data is off because, um, I can’t quite remember the reason, but it was interesting.” “That’s not a venomous snake. On a venomous snake the red bands of color touch the yellow bands, rather than the black ones. Or […]

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A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports lends support to a body of research suggesting that reading on electronic devices reduces comprehension. The study found that reading on a smartphone promotes overactivity in the prefrontal cortex, less frequent sighing, and lower reading comprehension. ...

“Do adults learn differently?” This has been a fundamental question that I have been asked time and time again. Much of what we know about learning and memory comes from research on students To generalize from these studies to someone mid-career… is that reasonable?

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics faculty are increasingly incorporating both formal and informal group work in their courses. Implementing group work can be improved by an understanding of the extensive body of educational research studies on this topic. This essay describes an online, evidence-based teaching guide published by CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE). The guide provides a tour of research studies and resources related to group work (including many articles from LSE). Instructors who are new to group work, as well as instructors who have experienced difficulties in implementing group work, may value the condensed summaries of key research findings. These summaries are organized by teaching challenges, and actionable advice is provided in a checklist for instructors. Education researchers may value the inclusion of empirical studies, key reviews, and meta-analyses of group-work studies. In addition to describing key features of the guide, this essay also identifies areas in which further empirical studies are warranted.

Motivation First Pedagogy

A guest post from Joshua Eyler on an urgent conversation we should be having about how grades impact student well-being.

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When instructors make a new quiz by clicking the +Quiz button on the Quizzes page, a window will appear prompting instructors to select either Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes.

How can you work with students as subject-matter experts where they demonstrate competency through an end-of-course assessment?

This comprehensive guide offers a road map to make sure your classroom interactions and course design reach all students, not just some of them.

Advocates ask teachers to cede authority to students. But what if you are a faculty member of color or an adjunct without much acknowledged authority to share?

Karl Marx wrote a short summary of every book he read and many scholars and successful people refer to note taking as the secret of their su...

I'm loving being able to use div tags instead of tables, but when I resize the page the items overlap. How can I prevent this? Here is my code: div style="float: left; width: 50%;" table style="height: 156px; border-style: solid; width: 322px;" border="1" width="330" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="...

Tabs are useful for organizing the content of a page within Canvas to reduce scrolling. This guide will show you how to input the Tabs HTML code into pages, add more tabs, and editing your content within each tab.