by Steven Volk | Apr 7, 2023 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning The Pros and Cons of Co-Created Course Policies (Beckie Supiano, April 6, 2023): Supiano passes on the insights of readers who’ve worked with students to co-create course policies, and adds a note of caution for those who might be thinking along...
by Steven Volk | Mar 31, 2023 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning In Their Own Words: What Scholars and Teachers Want You to Know About Why and How to Apply the Science of Learning in Your Academic Setting, by C.E. Overson, C.M. Hakala, L. L. Kordonowy, and V.A. Benassi, eds. An edited volume from the Society...
by Steven Volk | Mar 24, 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 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...