I recently saw a survey asking me to rank student engagement approaches. Options included active learning, flipped, and problem-based learning. I think we need to carefully define these as I think there is overlap and these may relate to different aspects of course structure. An active learning classroom may also be flipped. A flipped classroom … Read more
Short blog post this month… I got tired of students submitting papers in weird formats, even through I clearly stated both in class AND in the syllabus, what the format should be. Then I realized that some students didn’t know how to do basic word processing – such as how to change the Word Heading … Read more
While some instructors do not have the freedom to select course readings for their class, many still do. Selecting course readings is not an easy process, so I thought I would outline the process Maybee and I wrote up in our article (Reid & Maybee, 2021) (The full article is open access – easiest to … Read more
This month I asked a couple of instructor-focused social media groups for advice for new instructors. I loosely grouped these into Taking Care of Yourself, Your Syllabus, Teaching the Class, and Other. Here is the compiled list (duplicates removed): Taking Care of Yourself Your Syllabus Teaching the Class Other
A few months ago, I wrote about the direction of feedback – Feed up, back, and forward (available here). In addition to direction, when we write feedback we should consider what Hattie & Timperley (2007) refer to as the cognitive level of the feedback. They describe 4 types of cognitive levels: Task (FT), Process (FP), … Read more