Content or Learning?

When coverage is the focus, the game is memorization of disconnected facts. Students are very capable of and will express their preference for this type of learning. They are practiced at collecting lists of terms, defining them, memorizing them the night before a test, and then expelling them from their minds in a test of memory that if repeated a month, or a year later would dispel the myth that learning had taken place.

ACUE: What is it?

“With great teaching, students succeed.” These words are a core belief of the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE). The association was founded to ensure just that: great teaching. Founded in 2014, ACUE bridges the gap between content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge for college and university educators. It does this by offering an online …

A Review: What the Best College Teachers Do

At just over a decade old, Ken Bain’s book What the Best College Teachers Do can rightly be named a classic in the literature of teaching and learning in higher education. It is a simple question: What do the best college teachers do? Bain attempted to answer the question by interviewing students, teachers, and observing …

Surround Them with Feedback: 360-degree Assessment

By utilizing these three levels of assessment and feedback - instructor, peer, self - students are not likely to escape in ignorance of what they don’t know.

Lose the Hours, Not the Learning

It is inevitable: classes will be canceled. When it happens, how can you make sure that, though you may lose some contact hours, your students do not miss out on the learning? Blended Learning Blended learning is simply adding a digital element to a face-to-face class. We have many tools available to us to help …

What do I want my students to know?

Tomorrow you get to set the tone for your Spring 2018 classes. Why leave that to chance?

ZipGrading: Grade with your iPad

If the word “scantron” is synonymous with testing to you, then ZipGrade will be comfortable territory.