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How 'Flipping' the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture - Teaching - The Chron... - 3 views

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    Andrew P. Martin loves it when his lectures break out in chaos. It happens frequently, when he asks the 80 students in his evolutionary-biology class at the University of Colorado at Boulder to work in small groups to solve a problem, or when he asks them to persuade one another that the answer they arrived at before class is correct.
Laurie Maynell

Students Think They Can Multitask. Here's Proof They Can't | Faculty Focus - 3 views

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    September 26, 2012 Students Think They Can Multitask. Here's Proof They Can't. By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog. With easy access to all sorts of technology, students multitask. So, do lots of us for that matter. But students are way too convinced that multitasking is a great way to work.
Kathryn Plank

Video on Group Work in the College Classroom - 3 views

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    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.
Sharon Ross

For Social Media In The Classroom To Work, Instructors Need Best Practices - 2 views

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

The Flipped Classroom Defined | MindShift - 2 views

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    An interesting and effective teaching method that delivers instruction online outside of class and moves "homework" into the classroom.
Kathryn Plank

Five Ways to Recharge During the Summer | Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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    Some good ideas for making the most of a short summer.
Kathryn Plank

"Slow Tech" - 2 views

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    Interesting presentation with implications for our classrooms.
Ohio State UCAT

Microaggressions in the Classroom - 2 views

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    A guide to identifying and eliminating microaggressions in the classroom
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    Microaggressions are defined as "brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative racial slights and insults that potentially have harmful or unpleasant psychological impact on the target person or group." (Solorzano, Ceja, & Yosso, 2000)
Spencer Robinson

Want to Be a Good Researcher? Try Teaching - 2 views

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    Study indicates that graduate students who teach develop better research skills than those who only conduct research.
Kathryn Plank

The Tyranny of Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning - 1 views

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    Thought-provoking article...
Kathryn Plank

Perspectives on Undergraduate Research and Mentoring - 1 views

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    A new online, peer-reviewed journal
Alan Kalish

Changing syllabus mid-term - 1 views

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    An argument for changing as needed
Kathryn Plank

Online Courses Can Offer Easy A's via High-Tech Cheating - Technology - The Chronicle o... - 1 views

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    Easy A's may be even easier to score these days, with the growing popularity of online courses. Tech-savvy students are finding ways to cheat that let them ace online courses with minimal effort, in ways that are difficult to detect.
Kathryn Plank

Why Are Associate Professors Some of the Unhappiest People in Academe? - Faculty - The ... - 1 views

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    This is one of the reasons that UCAT sponsors the Mid-Career & Senior Faculty Learning Community.
Ohio State UCAT

Dealing with Disruptive and Distressed Individuals - 1 views

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    Download this guide for working with students who are disruptive or distressed
Ohio State UCAT

Ohio State Academic Support Units Provide Tips & Tools for Teachers - 1 views

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    At the 2012 Academy of Teaching Mini-Conference, academic support units presented the various ways in which they can support teachers in the next academic year. Check out this page for a wealth of helpful information!
Kathryn Plank

More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them (New Yor... - 1 views

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    New York Times article about use of clickers in higher education.
Laurie Maynell

Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Is Good - 1 views

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    Call it the "learning paradox": the more you struggle and even fail while you're trying to master new information, the better you're likely to recall and apply that information later. Teachers can design for "productive failure" by building it into the learning process.
Lindsay Bernhagen

Inventing a New Kind of College - 1 views

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    There are many reasons professors who lecture don't want to give it up. Tradition may be the mightiest force. "Lecturing is just the way a lot of professors have always done it," says Joe Redish, a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park who has done research on why lectures aren't effective.
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