We’re at that time of the academic year when the daily details begin to pile up. Teach a class, grade assignments, schedule advisees, and prep for tomorrow. It may…
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Now here’s an argument I haven’t heard before: Improving your instruction makes it easier for students to learn. If it’s easier for them to learn, they won’t work as…
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Developing Students’ Learning Philosophies
October 23, 2015 Neil Haave, PhD
Last year the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta ran a pilot study to consider the efficacy of using e-portfolios to deepen students’ learning. We were interested in…
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In Effective Teaching Strategies
More Content Doesn’t Equal More Learning
October 12, 2015 Nicki Monahan, MEd
With access to a world of information as close as our phones, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all there is to teach. New material continues to emerge in…
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In Blended and Flipped Learning, Effective Teaching Strategies
Three Critical Conversations Started and Sustained by Flipped Learning
March 2, 2015 Robert Talbert, PhD
The flipped learning model of instruction has begun to make the transition from an educational buzzword to a normative practice among many university instructors, and with good reason. Flipped…
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The Power of Teachers’ Questions Lies in Their Ability to Generate Students’ Questions
February 27, 2015 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
I was looking at one of my old teaching and learning books, Kenneth Eble’s 1988 book The Craft of Teaching. Some parts are now a bit dated, but many…
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Is Praise Undermining Student Motivation?
January 5, 2015 John Orlando, PhD
We think of praise as a good thing, even admirable. Don’t we praise our kids when they show us the drawing that they made in art class? To be…
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Today concludes our countdown of the top 14 articles of 2014. On Wednesday we revealed article number 14 on down to number eight. Today’s post reveals the seven most…
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Lecture Continues as the Dominant Instructional Strategy, Study Finds
October 28, 2014 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
Researchers Daniel Smith and Thomas Valentine begin by making an important point. At two-year colleges “the classroom serves as the epicenter of involvement.” (p. 134) The same could be…
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In Course Design, Teaching with Technology
Show the Learner Visible Signs of Their Learning
March 6, 2014 Karl Kapp EdD
One of the strengths of gamification is that it provides visible milestones of the student’s mastery of content in real time (when it is well designed). Too often in…