I sometimes tell a story about my first solo book, Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, involving a crisis that hit about 2/3 of the way through writing it. I forget what topic I’d originally planned to cover in chapter…
Category: Student Success
Active learning, active pushback, and what we should take away from a new study of student perceptions
Posted in Higher Education, and Student Success
To most of us with an interest in such things, the idea that active learning = good is not exactly new. So what is world-rocking about what Deslauriers and colleagues did?
How far would your school go to help first-year students thrive? Would it strike a couple hours off of their class schedules? Would it set aside time every single week for everybody to get some exercise? More on that in…
The psychology of transparency, and what it means for learning
Posted in Course Redesign, First-year Learning Initiative, Higher Education, Ideas and Resources, Student Success, and Trends and Change
Have you heard of the transparency concept in teaching gateway courses?
Failure’s fifteen minutes, and my own lesson learned
Posted in Higher Education, K-12, and Student Success
Failure is having a bit of a moment.