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Should Music be Used in the Classroom to Help Students Learn?
Michelle E. Zuñiga, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy To engage students, instructors...
Promoting Student Agency and Learning Through Specifications Grading
Chris Woods, Department of Chemistry The current grading paradigm has been seldom challenged for a...
Preparing the Environmental Professionals of the Future: Backwards Design in Environmental Studies
Paroma Wagle, Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy Learning about sustainability,...
Taking Modern Pedogogy into the Large Classroom
Marc Sprague-Piercy, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry The current thinking in...
Adding the EPIC to Education
Emily M. Slonecker, M.A, Department of Psychological Science What is your first thought when you...
How to Evaluate Individual Work Within a Group Project; Group-Individual Projects May Help!
Negin Sattari, Department of Cognitive Sciences Group Versus Individual Project Often students’...
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Juan R. Sandoval, Department of Social Ecology The Current State of “Diversity” and “Inclusion”...
Making Group Work Work: Designing Positive Group Work Experiences for Students
Deanna Myers, Department of Chemistry Group work. Just hearing the phrase brings up feelings of...
Rethinking the Physics Classroom: 4 Tools to Consider
Francisco J. Mercado, Department of Physics & Astronomy When we think about a physics...
Effective Response to Student Writing
Undarmaa Maamuujav, School of Education Responding to students’ papers that have serious...
Improving Critical Thinking Skills in College Students
Erica M. Leung, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering “People grow best where they...
Preparing for Difficult Conversations in Criminal Justice Classrooms
Bryant Jackson-Green, Department of Social Ecology Criminal justice coursework inevitably involves...
Implementing Flipped Classrooms into Law School Pedagogy
Conor Gómez, School of Law Welcome to Law School. All your hard work wooing professors to write...
Increasing Student Autonomy and Engagement in Biology Education at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level
Lianna Fung, Developmental and Cell Biology A typical traditional biology course at the...
Teaching and Mentoring URMs in STEM
Angeline Dukes, B.A., Department of Neurobiology & Behavior While navigating higher education...
Accommodating the Type 1 Diabetic Student
Morgan Coburn, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior *Please consult with your school’s unique...
Phone-a-Friend: Tips for Designing Meaningful Collaborative Exams
Jaclyn Beck, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Wait a minute. You want to test how much your...
Helping All Learners Realize Their Full Potential with Universal Design Learning
Devontae C. Baxter, Department of Physics and Astronomy Debunking “School isn’t for me” I think...
Promoting Equity and Humanizing Online Courses
Maricela Bañuelos, School of Education Historically, online learning was intended to increase...
Conversations on Teaching and Continuity During Unplanned Events and Emergencies
Check out the Pedagogical Continuity page for updated information about guidances for increased...
Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) 2020 Conference
Matthew Mahavongtrakul, PhD, Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation I attended the...
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In our Developing Teaching Excellence (University Studies 390X) course, participants explore...
Improving Student Engagement
Jonathan Ware, Department of Sociology In my Social Psychology class, we had just finished an...
Improving Students’ Writing Abilities Through Peer Review
Alma P. Olaguez, M.S., Department of Psychological Science What Makes a Good Paper? Most students...
Three Tips for Promoting Student Motivation
Yangyang Liu, School of Education Students play an active role in their own learning. However, as...
Learning through Writing Assignments
Jinna Kim, Department of Sociology Instructors often use writing assignments to assess students’...
Using Science to Inform Evidence-Based Practices – The Role of Flipped Classrooms
Emily Kan, Department of Psychological Science At universities across the world, student...
Overcoming Anxieties of Learning Quantitative Methodology and Gaining the Confidence to Teach it
Martín Jacinto, Department of Sociology In a farewell piece as editor of Teaching Sociology,...
The Benefits of Multirole In-Class Critiques for Students
Ivy Guild, MFA, Department of Art Typically used in design or art-oriented courses, a critique is...
High Impact Teaching Strategies for Large Undergraduate Classes in Public Health
Sara Goodman, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention What are high impact course...
Incorporation of Collaborative Learning in Classroom Teaching
Jawad Fayaz, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering For centuries, classroom teaching...
There’s More to Diversity Than a Diversity Statement: Diversity, Inclusion and You
Emory James Edwards, Department of Informatics Diversity is the buzzword of the hour in American...
Instructing Mathematics to Students With Wide Ranges in Prior Knowledge
David Clausen, Department of Mathematics When teaching introductory college math courses, one...
Two Misconceptions about Group Work/Collaborative Learning
Matthew Cheung, Department of Mathematics There are two misconceptions about group work and...
The Case for Meta-Integration Collaborative Activities (MICAs)
Mayan K. Castro, M.A., Department of Psychological Science What is a MICA? This is a call for a...
An Assignment to Promote the Achievements of Diverse Scholars
Amanda R. Brown Tortorici, MS, RD, CSCS, PhD Candidate in Public Health Diversity in the 1980’s I...
Why Group Work and Active Learning Help to Complement Professions in the “Real World”
Ian Baran, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy Whether the reality of all...
Applications for the Academic Success Research (ASR) Fellows is open!
Are you interested in learning how your courses or programs are impacting undergraduate student...
Food for Thought: Food and Community Building in the Classroom
Clare Gordon Bettencourt (@dearclare), Department of History “I didn’t realize how much I missed...
Sharpen your data science skills with a hands-on workshop on education research using R.
R is a free and powerful statistical computing language. Most courses that teach R start with an...