by Steven Volk | Jul 26, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Teaching: A Different Kind of Faculty Fellowship (Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 25, 2024): A program with a goal of helping professors remember what it’s like to learn something unfamiliar, which can be frustrating, but also...
by Steven Volk | Jul 19, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning In Student-Centered Classrooms, the Instructor Must Come First (John Warner, Inside Higher Ed, July 18, 2024): A commentary on a recent piece by Sarah Rose Cavanagh at The Chronicle discussing what she perceives as a backlash against...
by Steven Volk | Jul 12, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Authentic Assessments (Learning Scientists, July 12, 2024): A short annotated bibliography on authentic assessments. Are Colleges’ Predictive Analytics Biased Against Black and Hispanic Students? (Christa Dutton, Chronicle of Higher Education,...
by Steven Volk | Jul 5, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Assessing Learning Strategies (Learning Scientists, July 4, 2024): Brief listing of four different assessments of learning strategies. Student Voice Survey: The Academic Experience (Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, July 3, 2024): Students rate...
by Steven Volk | Jun 28, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Stress and Memory (Althea Need Kaminske, Learning Scientists, June 27, 2024): When we experience a stressful event our memory is improved for whatever was stressing us out. So in this way our memory is improved. However, we are less able to pay...
by Steven Volk | Jun 21, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning 2 Ways to Support Students’ Mental Health (Katie Rose Guest Pryal, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2024): How to take steps that will both help your struggling students and lessen the burden on...
