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Getting Students to Do the Readings Few things are more frustrating to a college teacher than to begin a discussion of the readings assigned during a previous class and discover that a significant number of students haven’t done the readings. This issue’s Thriving in Academe offers encouraging news: There are classroom strategies for ensuring that students keep up with class readings—and students actually welcome them

Getting Students to Do the Readings

Helping Students Embrace Deep Learning The concept that one size fits all doesn’t have much of a place in education since we’ve begun to understand better how brains work and people learn.

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The way a course is organized can have a dramatic effect on how much time students spend just

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aids the brainstorming process at the start of any project or piece of work offers a dashboard to gather and collate research data create skeletal frameworks for essays and reports and easily identify any gaps helps improve memory recall for study visualize stages and tasks required to successfully deliver projects produce presentations, essays and reports directly from MindGenius maps offers a visual focus for class discussion and encourages peer-to-peer learning helps develop creative thinking skills 

MindGenius is the ability to brainstorm and capture ideas, either individually or in class, and create a visual representation.

virtual classroom environment with robust features that includes audio, video, application sharing and content display. Its pedagogical design and ease-of-use ensures that educators and students engage as if they were meeting face-to-face.

Wimba Classroom has been carefully architected to give learners access to teachers, courses, and content beyond the four walls of a physical classroom or campus.  Learning objectives are in fact enhanced when teachers enrich their content by using interactive features like instant polling, application sharing, or the electronic whiteboard. 

Wimba Classroom provides a flexible venue for instructors to meet, learn and collaborate online.