by Steven Volk | Mar 17, 2023 | News of the Week
CTL Invitation – ChatGPT: Moving from Perils to Potentials Have you overcome your concerns that ChatGPT and other “generative AI” programs can only encourage student cheating and begun to think about them as tools that can help foster learning? Have you been...
by Steven Volk | Mar 10, 2023 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Changing Your Teaching Takes More than a Recipe (Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2023): Professors have been urged to adopt more effective practices. Why are their results so mixed? In Defense of Bad Readers (Steven Mintz,...
by Steven Volk | Mar 3, 2023 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning The Secrets of College Success (Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed, March 2, 2023): Mintz summarizes the conclusions of two books: The Secret Syllabus: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of College Syccess (Jay Phelan and Terry Burnham, Princeton) and...
by Steven Volk | Feb 24, 2023 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Teaching in an Age of ‘Militant Apathy’ (Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 15, 2023): Immersive education offers a way to reach students. But can it ever become the norm? HyFlex Learning: Viable Beyond Emergencies?...
by Steven Volk | Feb 17, 2023 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning ‘Procrastination-Friendly’ Academe Needs More Deadlines (Susan D’Agostino, Inside Higher Ed, February 10, 2023): Some faculty members believe eliminating deadlines optimizes flexibility for students. But cognitive psychology research...
