student response
Recent Seminars
Using Clickers to Engage Students and Maximize Learning
You know student engagement is important for learning, but it’s not always easy to activate, especially in large classrooms. Students may limit participation because they’re intimidated, unprepared, shy or scared. Worse yet, if they’re lost, you won’t know it. Find out how clickers can help you connect with students, even in the largest lecture hall.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Can Clickers Enhance Student Learning?
Dr. Peter M. Saunders, director of Oregon State University’s Center for Teaching and Learning, has heard the horror stories, and understands why faculty were hesitant to use clickers in the early years.
Student Recommendations for Encouraging Participation
Getting students to participate in class is one of those perplexing instructional problems we all face, particularly when teaching undergraduate classes. Are there significant differences in the graduate classroom?
How to Make Course Evaluations More Valuable
The major benefit any conscientious professor seeks in course evaluations is in gaining useful student feedback. Yet most rating instruments generate vague, unjustified student comments. Quantitative scales provide ambiguous statistics for such generic instructional areas as preparation, fairness in grading, etc., but they don’t include any formative commentary. Open-ended questions ask students what things the
The Power of Putting the Students at the Center of Learning
As an instructor at a career-focused university, I thought I had experienced it all: great classes and bad classes, classes that ran smoothly and those that required firm management, classes that were a breeze and those that challenged my patience. Despite these experiences, I was unprepared for what became my best class, the one that most changed my outlook on teaching…
