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Coverage or Uncoverage: Lessons Learned while Teaching History - 1 views

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history flipped_classroom

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Patrick Jackson uses a "flipped classroom" model to force himself to not lecture, and instead focus intro-level students on the core skills of historical analysis. From the GLCA Center for Teaching and Learning.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Patrick Jackson uses a "flipped classroom" model to force himself to not lecture, and instead focus intro-level students on the core skills of historical analysis. From the GLCA Center for Teaching and Learning.</div>

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Courses That Are Hard, but Not Too Hard: Finding the Sweet Spot - 0 views

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course_evaluations

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Worth thinking about this as we wrap up the semester and plan for the next one. Did your students find your course to be difficult enough to be motivating, but still achievable?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Worth thinking about this as we wrap up the semester and plan for the next one. Did your students find your course to be difficult enough to be motivating, but still achievable?</div>

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Techniques for End-of-Semester Reflection and Review - 1 views

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last_day_of_class metacognition studying

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Interesting to connect the job of helping students prepare for end-of-semester assignments or exams with the goal of bringing a sense of closure to your course.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting to connect the job of helping students prepare for end-of-semester assignments or exams with the goal of bringing a sense of closure to your course.</div>

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Book list for teaching about social justice - 5 views

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syllabi controversy social_media

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Our colleagues at Otterbein are crowdsourcing a list of good books for "teaching about social justice in troubled times". Please comment or add your own suggestions!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Our colleagues at Otterbein are crowdsourcing a list of good books for "teaching about social justice in troubled times". Please comment or add your own suggestions!</div>

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OhioLINK takes steps toward textbook affordability - 1 views

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open textbook_evolution

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OhioLINK is joining the Open Textbook Network, a consortium working on controlling textbook costs by providing high-quality open access textbooks. Have you looked at the open textbooks in your field?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">OhioLINK is joining the Open Textbook Network, a consortium working on controlling textbook costs by providing high-quality open access textbooks. Have you looked at the open textbooks in your field?</div>

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Research paper suggests liberal arts colleges are offering more courses outside the lib... - 0 views

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curriculum jobs liberal_arts

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Interesting attempt to measure the growth of professionally-oriented courses at liberal arts schools, and some good reporting to contextualize the changes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting attempt to measure the growth of professionally-oriented courses at liberal arts schools, and some good reporting to contextualize the changes.</div>

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In the Eye of the Storm: Students' Perceptions of Helpful Faculty Actions Following a C... - 6 views

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students tragedy crisis

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From the abstract: "This paper investigates the most common instructor responses following a tragedy and which of those responses students find most helpful."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">From the abstract: "This paper investigates the most common instructor responses following a tragedy and which of those responses students find most helpful."</div>

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Guidelines for Discussing Difficult or Controversial Topics - 4 views

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discussion crisis controversy

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A strong set of best practices, both for spontaneous "hot moment" discussions and for ways to plan and structure difficult conversations.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A strong set of best practices, both for spontaneous "hot moment" discussions and for ways to plan and structure difficult conversations.</div>

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Sleepy Teens Have More Trouble Learning - 1 views

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wellbeing

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Your circadian rhythms may have as much to do with the feeling of sleepiness as the actual amount of sleep you get. That has interesting implications for class scheduling and advising.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Your circadian rhythms may have as much to do with the feeling of sleepiness as the actual amount of sleep you get. That has interesting implications for class scheduling and advising.</div>

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Writing Past the "Good Grade": Authorship, Empathy, and Community-Engaged Classes - 1 views

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community-engaged_learning writing

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In this article from the new GLCA Consortium for Teaching and Learning, Crystal Benedicks of Wabash College looks at the way that students come to understand the writing process more deeply in community-engaged learning classes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In this article from the new GLCA Consortium for Teaching and Learning, Crystal Benedicks of Wabash College looks at the way that students come to understand the writing process more deeply in community-engaged learning classes. </div>

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Doing Your Own Assignments First - 1 views

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assignments

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Doing the assignments you give may help you teach student some of the implicit skills and knowledge in them.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Doing the assignments you give may help you teach student some of the implicit skills and knowledge in them.</div>

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A Defense of the Multiple-Choice Exam - 1 views

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The author uses multiple-choice exams to make sure that students have at least read the material, and as a counterweight to any bias she might have about the content. What is your "theory of exams"?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The author uses multiple-choice exams to make sure that students have at least read the material, and as a counterweight to any bias she might have about the content. What is your "theory of exams"?</div>

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The Participation Log: Assessing Students' Classroom Participation - 2 views

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participation discussion assessment metacognition

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Classroom participation is difficult to track and assess equitably. Why not have the students contribute regular self-assessment to the process?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Classroom participation is difficult to track and assess equitably. Why not have the students contribute regular self-assessment to the process?</div>

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The 10 Best Books for College Teachers - Part 1 - 0 views

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SoTL bookclub

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Some interesting suggestions here (and in the "Part 2" post) for books on teaching and learning "that provide a new framework, new research, or new ideas on how to develop a strong institutional practice." Anything look interesting for our next book club?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Some interesting suggestions here (and in the "Part 2" post) for books on teaching and learning "that provide a new framework, new research, or new ideas on how to develop a strong institutional practice." Anything look interesting for our next book club?</div>

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It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don't - 0 views

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learning_styles

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Another interesting wrinkle in the learning preferences literature. Feeling that learning something was easy is not the same as learning it well.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Another interesting wrinkle in the learning preferences literature. Feeling that learning something was easy is not the same as learning it well.</div>

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Open Educational Practice: Unleashing the Potential of OER - 0 views

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open wikipedia information_literacy

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Moving from the use of open educational resources (OERs) to an "open educational practice" helps students to understand themselves as knowledge creators in a community, and not just as information consumers. This article focuses on class projects to edit Wikipedia articles, which is only one example of an open educational practice, but an easy one to start with.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Moving from the use of open educational resources (OERs) to an "open educational practice" helps students to understand themselves as knowledge creators in a community, and not just as information consumers. This article focuses on class projects to edit Wikipedia articles, which is only one example of an open educational practice, but an easy one to start with.</div>

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You Don't Know Your Students. This Professor Hopes to Change That. - 1 views

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students podcast

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You may know Michael Wesch from his videos "The Machine is Us/ing Us" or "What Baby George and Handstands Taught Me". In this interview he talks about his next project, a podcast series which will present ethnographic participant-observations of student life, with the goal of deeper understanding of student life.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">You may know Michael Wesch from his videos "The Machine is Us/ing Us" or "What Baby George and Handstands Taught Me". In this interview he talks about his next project, a podcast series which will present ethnographic participant-observations of student life, with the goal of deeper understanding of student life.</div>

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A Failure of Empathy - 2 views

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students classroom_dynamic

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A beautiful and brave story from John Warner about the need for empathy in teaching.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A beautiful and brave story from John Warner about the need for empathy in teaching.</div>

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The Flipped Classroom Unplugged: Three Tech-Free Strategies for Engaging Students - 0 views

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flipped_classroom engagement active_learning

shared by Joe Murphy on 29 Sep 16 - No Cached

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Three good suggestions for classroom activities which get groups of students interacting deeply with course content. Notice how these would work whether your "flipped" classroom relies on videos or more traditional out-of-class reading.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Three good suggestions for classroom activities which get groups of students interacting deeply with course content. Notice how these would work whether your "flipped" classroom relies on videos or more traditional out-of-class reading.</div>

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The Questions We Should Be Asking Our Students - 0 views

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studying metacognition

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Do you know how your students prepare for your course? Which scholarly processes do you model for them?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Do you know how your students prepare for your course? Which scholarly processes do you model for them?</div>

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