Teaching

How backpacking can help us think about alternative grading

I genuinely did not expect this. People building their first buttons live. And seeing people's faces when things clicked. Like literally. What we covered Text buttons - one press, your LinkedIn link, your Miro board, your instructions... in the chat...

Six books on teaching, learning, and classroom challenges worth adding to your TBR pile

Or, should you share your slides before a presentation?

On Canvas, you can create personalized scales. This way, you can go beyond traditional percentages or Completes/Incompletes. For my Film course, for example, I created a Complete/Try Again scale. To do this, I … 1. Made the assignment worth 1 point. 2. Under the assignment settings, I clicked the button for how the grade shows up. 3. I clicked the GPA Scale button. 4. I clicked the button for a custom scale. 5. I set the point values. This takes some gaming. Anything in between a 0.5 and a 1 gets a Complete. Anything between a 0 and a 0.5 gets a Try Again. This way, when I put a 0/1 into the gradebook, it shows up as Try Again to the students.

I’ve been out here in the retiree pasture for a few years now (it’s a lovely place upstate, with many frolicking dogs) and as some teachers are staring down the last few weeks of their teaching careers, let me offer them some advice.

How do you write a teaching statement that doesn’t sound exactly like everybody else’s?

Evidence-based strategies for addressing bias in student evaluations of teaching.

Biochemistry Instructor Cass Terrell describes how incorporating visual models and visual literacy helps students grasp complex concepts, master high-level p...

Blame the jobs that compete for their time. Blame the messages our institutions are sending about what’s worth their time—and what the purpose of their degree is.

In higher education, grading has largely been standardized, with letter grades standing in for student learning. However, the academy has begun to wonder, does traditional grading measure what students actually ...

Thinking about how recent interest in lower-tech teaching and learning can engage with accessibility

James and Justin Bieber put their dance abilities and fitness to the test when they sign up for an incredibly intense dance class taught by toddlers.More Lat...

The Postplagiarism framework has gained considerable attention, reshaping the landscape of academic integrity and ethical decision-making in education and research. This paradigm shift encourages educators to embrace the potential of artificial intelligence integration in transforming the competencies students need for their careers and communities. In this presentation I focus on two of the postplagiarism tenets: \\u00A0enhanced human creativity and the disappearance of language barriers. I will showcase preliminary findings of my doctoral research on academic integrity. As we recognize students\\u2019 diversity, these two postplagiarism-tenets provide a framework for fostering creative communication and accessible educational environments while disappearing potential obstacles within a transformative model for learning academic integrity.\\n\\nSpeaker: Bibek Dahal, MPhil, University of Calgary\\n\\nBio: Bibek Dahal, MPhil is a PhD Candidate in higher education leadership, policy, and governance.

New York University is going to be a leader in helping students improve digital habits and engage more with each other, their professors, and NYC. President Linda G. Mills and I are working together to push back the phone-based life with her new initiative, NYU-IRL, premiering today. Check out the amusing video. #NYUIRL #phonefreeschools NYU Stern School of Business

Full details at the blog post: https://myfest.equityunbound.org/events/designing-with-not-around-disabled-learners-a-screen-reader-demo-experience/This sessi...

Dozens of institutions are piloting new ways to evaluate college teaching beyond student surveys. Here are the six steps they’re taking to fix a broken system.

If your eLearning slides feel slightly off — and you can’t quite put your finger on why — visuals are often the culprit. A stock photo on slide three. A cartoon character on slide seven. A fl…

Here’s a 90-second behind-the-scenes look at how I prep for my class.Before students join, I map the flow. These are the tools supporting my live classes:- S...

Dozens of institutions are piloting new ways to evaluate college teaching beyond student surveys. Here are the six steps they’re taking to fix a broken system.

Learning is a continuum, a process that takes place in many forms, in different environments, individually and collaboratively, with or without teacher prese...

Teachers can use popular conspiracies to help students scrutinize what they see online.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how I structure podcast delivery day in my college public speaking course.If you teach public speaking or assign podcasts,...

Theologians Weigh in on Ungrading