You know that part of making Thanksgiving dinner, when you’ve taken out every ingredient, dirtied every utensil you own, pots are bubbling but you haven’t produced an actual edible dish yet?
Category: Academic Life
When you think of higher education institutions outside the United States, what comes to mind? If you’re from the U.S. yourself, you might have some assumptions worth questioning. Higher ed, like nearly every contemporary human endeavor, is globalizing. Lots of…
From assessment cop to assessment advocate: On the prevention and treatment of data rage
Posted in Academic Life, and Higher Education
As more institutions sink more money into myriad student success programs, the appetite for data documenting the impacts of those programs grows and grows.
We talk a lot about making teaching and learning easier. What happens when it’s harder?
Posted in Academic Life, and Higher Education
One of the more useful concepts to come along from the literature on cognition and learning is this: desirable difficulty.
No matter how long you teach, the turning of the semesters is kind of exciting. The countdown to commencement, daunting piles of grading, and finally “being done” mark a familiar rhythm season in and season out.