DCAL's Josh Kim suggests that higher education may have something to learn from UVM's Larner College of Medicine as it shifts from lecture-based learning to more active methods.
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Ten professors received awards from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this year.
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Midterm course evaluations, student group work, and adding custom questions to your end-of-term course evals in this issue of our newsletter, the Teaching & Learning Connection.
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It wasn’t until Thayer Professor Eric Hansen witnessed colleague Peter Robbie teaching his classes differently that he realized he could change things up. “He treated his classroom like an art studio,” says Hansen of Robbie. “I thought, 'why couldn’t I do that?'"
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Too many discussions of ed tech focus on tools (like tablets, clickers, learning-management systems, smart boards, etc). More thought should be spent on the design of the classroom itself. Two years ago we renovated an old computer lab into an active learning classroom. Read more.
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