I hear many instructors lamenting that their students are not doing their homework to the instructor’s satisfaction. If we agree that homework is an important part of the learning process, then it is important to tackle this problem. Do your students know why they are doing homework? Don’t be so sure that they do. Many students do it because it’s part of the game, because they are told to do it, because they get points for doing it. They should…
There is a growing pool of questions available inside Learning Catalytics. Some have been generated by the publisher, others have been generated by the community of instructors using Learning Catalytics. For my first Flipped Classroom I wrote my own questions (sample vs population, descriptive vs inferential, levels of data, …) and it was very easy to do. However, for day 2, I used 7 questions created by the publisher/author and the community of instructors and those questions were outstanding. The…
I have been listening to a great podcast lately named “Teaching In Higher Ed” and it’s a great combination of teaching advice, new trends, productivity tips, and technology recommendations. You can find it on iTunes here, or go directly to the web site. I was listening to Episode 12 which dealt with ways to learn student names and it reminded me of a blog I shared in my old WordPress blog and I thought it was time for an update….