The Problem with Snapnotes
As I sat in a lecture attended by all first-year students at our college, I noticed the scale of a troubling trend: the rise of “snapnotes.” Snapnotes are what I…
Andre P. Audette
December 1, 2023
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Creative Ways to Start Class: Getting Students Ready to Learn
Starting a lecture can be a challenge: getting everyone seated, attentive, and ready to move forward with the content can take several minutes. I have found that sometimes it feels…
Patty Kohler-Evans
April 10, 2009
Activities that Get Students Ready to Learn
Starting a lecture can be challenging: getting everyone seated, attentive, and ready to move forward with the content can take several minutes. I have found that sometimes it feels abrupt…
Patty Kohler-Evans
July 31, 2009
Researchers Recommend Providing Students with Partial Notes
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…
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
February 4, 2010
Six Principles of a Successful Course Redesign
…the same types of problems. Instructors attribute the change to a thorough redesign of the course. They went from three 50-minute lectures a week to one lecture plus two computer…
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
March 17, 2010
Putting Students in Charge of Finding Real-World Examples Makes for a More Engaging Classroom
As a marketing professor, I often found myself scouring publications, stores, and my cabinets prior to a lecture, to find real-world examples of concepts I was teaching. Although students seemed…
Karen Welte Gore
March 19, 2010
Five Common Pitfalls of Online Course Design
…a syllabus, lecture notes, reading lists, and assignment checklists. In other words, whatever materials a student might have viewed on paper in the past are now read onscreen, and whatever…
Elizabeth St. Germain
July 6, 2011
Using Role Play Simulations to Promote Active Learning
Role play simulation is a form of experiential learning that allows you to “cover” the same sort of topics as you would in a lecture course while moving your students…
Laure Paquette PhD
February 6, 2012
