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A blog post inspiring instructors to start thinking about "Best practices" for social media in the classroom

Herein you'll find ways that instructors can share Bloom's taxonomy with students in a way to help students guide their own learning. Some nice graphics, lesson plans, and clever videos (including Homer Simpson as a model for each aspect of the taxonomy).

Herein you'll find ways that instructors can share Bloom's taxonomy with students in a way to help students guide their own learning. Some nice graphics, lesson plans, and clever videos (including Homer Simpson as a model for each aspect of the taxonomy).

A non-US instructor teaching in the US for the first time shares his impressions of US students, and strategies for engaging them in the kinds of learning he wants then to do.

Great examples from ITA Development Programs around the US.

It's a typical scene: a few minutes before 11:00 on a Tuesday morning and about 200 sleepy-looking college students are taking their seats in a large lecture hall - chatting, laughing, calling out to each other across the aisles. Class begins with a big "shhhh" from the instructor.

There's big talk these days about "big data" in education-looking for patterns of behavior as students click through online classrooms and using the insights to improve instruction. One start-up company that manages online discussion forums for thousands of courses recently performed its first major analysis of behavioral trends among students, and found what its leaders say amounts to advice for instructors.

Are you looking for some new ways to enhance your teaching or boost your productivity during Ohio State's first autumn semester? What follows are highlights of some resources we recommend to help you. Below, I'll also suggest several DU blog posts that feature additional apps. You can also check out our list of upcoming workshops, where you can learn even more.

How can you use group work effectively in a college setting? Instructors and students share their experiences, and Carl Wieman explains what the research suggests for best practices in implementing group activities.

Want more teaching tips? Browse the Pedagogy Unbound archives. We're all familiar with direct approaches to combating academic dishonesty. Automatic failures, disciplinary action from on high, honor codes: Instructors and institutions are working hard to try to weed out cheating, and understandably so.

What do you think of using students' grades in later sequential courses as a measure of instructors' success in previous courses? The research of an Ohio State professor is featured in this article!

Professor Hacker asks what instructors do when students give feedback that is verifiably wrong. Readers have submitted ways of handling/preventing this.

This document helps instructors interpret the results from SEIs here at Ohio State and gives them suggestions for how to improve areas where they might want to raise their scores.