by Steven Volk | Feb 23, 2024 | News of the Week
New CTL Workshop: WTF: Way(s) to Fail Are your students paralyzed by being wrong? Do they not take risks in the classroom for fear of getting a bad grade? The science of learning tells us that we learn best from our mistakes. How can we develop a culture of...
by Steven Volk | Feb 16, 2024 | News of the Week
Chat GPT on Campus One Year Out: A View from GLCA Faculty We’ve just had a year with ChatGPT in our lives, a year that has produced confusion, chaos, and conversations in much of higher education. Instead of examining the squeaky wheels in this debate, we sought to...
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...
