In The Classroom

Putting the Focus on Student Engagement in Blended Learning Courses

by Meg Gorzycki, Ed.D. Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, San Francisco State University Hybrid teaching and blended learning are fundamentally concerned with providing an environment in which students assume responsibility for seeing information and completing tasks necessary to understand the material. As students assume such responsibility,...

10th Circuit Rules Profs. Decide Free-Speech Limits in College Papers

by Victoria Prieskop The 10th Circuit ruled March 28, 2017 that the University of New Mexico had the right to reject an academic paper which called a lesbian-themed film “entirely perverse.

I'm Finished Playing Favorites in the Classroom

by Laura Yeager In a previous essay entitled "The Academic Circle of Life & Excellent Usage of Commas," I wrote about my time in graduate school at Iowa State, where I.

Trigger Warnings: Are We Asking Too Much of Faculty and Too Little of Students?

Professors say college students need to keep an open mind about disturbing or unfamiliar academic material. by Joseph Williams Proponents say they’re creating safe spaces for sexual assault victims, combat veterans, or other college students who have experienced trauma or violence. Experts say they’re well intentioned...

Are Students Now Entitled to Freedom FROM Free Speech in the Classroom?

by Frank Furedi The news that students at City, University of London have voted to ban The Sun, Daily Mail and Express newspapers from its campus – a ban which could be.

Syllabus-writing as Storytelling

Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega Earlier this week, I realized that we had passed the mid-semester mark (our semester is uncharacteristically long, 16 weeks of class instead of the traditional 13 that.

Ban PowerPoint in Lectures? Yes! Here's Why

by Bent Meier Sørensen Any university teacher who does not harbor a painful recollection of a failed lecture is a liar. On one such occasion, I felt early on that I had lost the students entirely: those who hadn’t sunk into comatose oblivion were listless and...

New Study: College Students Taught by Good-looking Lecturers Learn More

By Daniel Akst “Effects of Instructor Attractiveness on Learning,” R. Shane Westfall, Murray Millar and Mandy Walsh, Journal of General Psychology (July 13) How to help students do better in.

Paradigm Shift: More than 40 Percent of College Students Now Adult Learners

By Joseph Dussault Each year, legions of adult learners – that is, students who are 25 years old or older – take a first or second chance at higher education..

From Koala to Kangaroo—Getting Your Students Hopping With Active Learning

by Shawn Orr, Digital Educator You’ve probably seen this chart or another many times over the course of your teaching. Basically, it’s saying that we remember very little of what somebody talks to us about. We remember more if we can see it. We remember...

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