by Steven Volk | Feb 23, 2024 | News of the Week
New CTL Workshop: WTF: Way(s) to Fail Are your students paralyzed by being wrong? Do they not take risks in the classroom for fear of getting a bad grade? The science of learning tells us that we learn best from our mistakes. How can we develop a culture of...
by Steven Volk | Feb 16, 2024 | News of the Week
Chat GPT on Campus One Year Out: A View from GLCA Faculty We’ve just had a year with ChatGPT in our lives, a year that has produced confusion, chaos, and conversations in much of higher education. Instead of examining the squeaky wheels in this debate, we sought to...
by Steven Volk | Feb 12, 2024 | Featured Article
We’ve just had a year with ChatGPT in our lives, but according to commentators, AI has left higher ed in ruin. Emerging from the rubble are panicked professors with a sole “assignment” – to prevent AI from sowing chaos this year. Others foresee AI instigating a...
by Steven Volk | Feb 9, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Improving Self-Regulated Learning (Althea Need Kaminske, The Learning Scientists, February 8, 2024): Self-regulated learning describes a cyclical process of forethought, performance, and self-reflection that enables a learner to regulate, and...
by Steven Volk | Feb 2, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning What Fixing a Snowblower Taught One Professor About Teaching (Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 1, 2024): The biggest challenge was moving away from the standard assessment routine of homework and exams. Reimagining Syllabus...
