Posts Tagged ‘benefit of note taking’
January 17 - The Lost Art of Note Taking When Writing a Research Paper
By: Matt Birkenhauer in Teaching and Learning
When students write essays requiring research, in the age of Wikipedia and other online resources, I worry a little, not so much about the quality of the sources themselves (that has always varied, even in the day of hardcopy sources), but about the quality or outright dearth of note taking that often accompanies the writing of research papers.
February 4 - Researchers Recommend Providing Students with Partial Notes
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning
Course management software programs make it especially easy for instructors to provide students with a set of complete lecture notes. It seems that more instructors are doing this, as witnessed in the regularity with which students ask that the instructor’s notes be posted. But is giving students a complete set of notes a good idea?
