Tag: Fall 2022


Marketing Good Teaching or: How to Convince Students to Love Effective Teaching

Are you ready to adopt the latest research on effective teaching in your classes? Great! Are your students ready to make the move from passive to active learning? Students are often resistant to changes to teaching because they do not understand the compelling reasons to engage in active learning. They got here with traditional lectures… Read More

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  • Devin Scott, PhD

Choosing the Right Academic Technology For Your Learning Goals

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Choosing the right tech tools for your teaching means making strategic choices, weighing costs against payouts, and staying laser-focused on your course goals. technology needs to earn its place in your classroom by providing tangible benefits, and it has the best chance of doing that when it targets… Read More

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  • Jennifer Stewart, MPS

Reframing the Lecture as a Pedagogy of Engagement

To lecture or not to lecture? This is a common question in higher education today, as critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. The criticisms, however, often are leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, transmission-model lecture. There are, however, other forms of lecture. So perhaps the question we should… Read More

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  • Claire Major, PhD, University of Alabama