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Can Clickers Enhance Student Learning?

Article: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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 ... Read full story »

Student Recommendations for Encouraging Participation

Article: Friday, September 25th, 2009

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? A ... Read full story »

How to Make Course Evaluations More Valuable

Article: Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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 ... Read full story »

The Power of Putting the Students at the Center of Learning

Article: Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

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 ... Read full story »

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