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All You Need to Know About the 'Learning Styles' Myth, in Two Minutes - 0 views

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The learning styles myth may be a myth, but you can still tailor teaching styles to improve learning.

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Brain Training Doesn't Make You Smarter - Scientific American - 0 views

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Instead of brain games, get up and move. Better yet, structure class so that students can move once or twice.

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Athletes, academic performance, and the stereotype threat | The Rest Project - 0 views

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learning; athletes; stereotype threat

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",,,exercising regularly and vigorous, contributes to one's intellectual capacity."

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American universities should do more to help Chinese students adapt (essay) @insidehigh... - 0 views

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higher education working with students international

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Be open to cultural differences of students who were not educated in the US.

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Improv Helps Ph.D.'s Explain Their Work-and Loosen Up - Graduate Students - The Chronic... - 1 views

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student concerns higher education communication skills

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Americans are Internationals Too - 1 views

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international diversity

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..."Lamguage matters. There is a difference between "non-American" and "international," and blurring the distinction whitewashes something important."

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How Diversity Makes Us Smarter - Scientific American - 3 views

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Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups are more innovative than homogeneous groups.

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A Foreigner Teaching in America - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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international instructors

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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.

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Latest and Greatest Books on College Teaching | Teaching & Learning in Higher Ed. - 0 views

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Some great books on college teaching, including a few UCAT favorites

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Students Can Transfer Knowledge if Taught How - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

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Teaching for transfer in the context of composition courses.

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10 Courses With a Twist - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Stories of innovative teaching. One of the ten profiled, John Boyer, is also discussed in the book "Cheating Lessons" by James Lang, for how his assessment methods minimize cheating.

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Why Students Cheat-and 3 Ways to Stop Them - 0 views

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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To Lecture or Not to Lecture? - Paul T. Corrigan - The Atlantic - 0 views

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That is not the question. Teachers should focus on finding the best way to teach a particular skill, rather than dismissing or embracing one method outright.

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Moocs are a good alternative to books | Opinion | Times Higher Education - 0 views

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A professor can use MOOCs and not make himself obsolete.

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The 6 most common questions about using Peer Instruction, answered - Turn to Your Neigh... - 0 views

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peer instruction flipped classroom

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"Preparing for an active learning class isn't more work than preparing for a lecture class".

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7 Ways to Manage Email So It Doesn't Manage You | LinkedIn - 0 views

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time management productivity

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A time management post as we get ready for another school year.

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Texting Generation More Likely To Read Books and Use the Library Than Older Americans -... - 0 views

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higher education literacy

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Virtual Brown Bag Series: Helene Cweren on The Undergraduate Research Office-A Resource... - 0 views

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Learn about the Undergraduate Research Office at Ohio State's next Virtual Brownbag this Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

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Faculty responsible for making online materials accessible for disabled students | Insi... - 0 views

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accessibility technology

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OSU's Scott Lissner quoted at the National Association of College and Unversity Attoneys.

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Multitasking while studying: Divided attention and technological gadgets impair learnin... - 0 views

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working with students technology learning student concerns

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Data show that multi-tasking impedes learning.

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