by Steven Volk | May 3, 2024 | News of the Week
Editor’s Note: Once again, it appears that most of the “teaching and learning” happening this past week was taking place in the campus protests that have now spread across the country. Journalists and opinion writers struggled to find the proper frame from which to...
by Steven Volk | Apr 26, 2024 | News of the Week
Note from the editor: Much of the news this past week covered the repercussions from the April 17th House Education and Workforce Committee hearings in which Columbia University’s president and other officials faced an intense grilling from Republican committee...
by Steven Volk | Apr 19, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning An Overlooked Way Professors Can Be Role Models (Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 18, 2024): Revealing unseen parts of their identities could help science instructors show students what’s possible for them, a researcher says....
by Steven Volk | Apr 12, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Retrieval Practice in Undergraduate Medical Education (Cindy Nebel, Learning Scientists, April 12, 2024): More evidence on retrieval practices, this time among undergraduate pre-med students. More on How – and Whether – to Develop Students’ Study...
by Steven Volk | Apr 5, 2024 | News of the Week
Solar Eclipse Special As if you didn’t already know: many of us are in the direct path of the April 8 solar eclipse! So, get your eclipse glasses ready, find out what events will be happening on your campus, and read everything you wanted to know about solar eclipses...
