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...
by Steven Volk | Jan 26, 2024 | News of the Week
CTL Webinar: Working with Students When Things Get Difficult Many thanks to Cyndi Kernahan, professor of psychological sciences and director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, for her January 18...
by Steven Volk | Jan 19, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning How to Help Students Learn from Setbacks/Final Grades in an Ungraded Course (Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18, 2024): Insights from a recent study on how students learn from “critical incidents” — challenges that raise...
