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The Bradford VC's blog

"After preparing their papers, students attached an interactive cover sheet on which they raised questions about the paper they had just completed, thereby identifying the specific areas for feedback."

Hey, I worked with Sue Bloxham at St Martins. She's a great teacher in academic development. I think the 2nd last comment is useful too. The first ones suggest this process will be too hard for students. But we want them to be critical thinkers and they need to make that analysis of their own work too so provide the teaching to support them.

David Parry, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, talks about using Twitter, a new messaging service, for his courses.

"Unfortunately, class sizes are increasing almost everywhere, and that means the number of faculty struggling with the challenges of large courses is growing, too... Let me highlight several good resources."

"Do you pass back exams, a set of papers or grades on some other student project and offer generic comments on what the class did and didn't do well on the assignment?"

"In an attempt to explain ds106 to some colleagues as part of a larger conversation about the possibilities of teaching online without LMS, I crafted this..."

"One of these dead ideas is that grading motivates learning. Pike contends that grading motivates getting grades."

Rob Torrens is using McGraw-Hill's Create service to customise his ENGG180 textbook.

SHort Faculty Focus piece on connecting with your students and learning vs grades on the first day of a course.