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Losing the Lecture
There is a great piece from NPR about physicists reworking their large lecture courses after…
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“Digital Natives” and Learning
Hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog for information on Brian Cowan's article on November…
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“Retrieval Practice”-Creating Tests that Reaffirm Knowledge
What do you want your tests to accomplish? Are they meant to measure learning that…
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Play Nice
Law school can be a wonderful training ground for civil behavior under stress ... or the opposite.
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Interesting Ideas on Class Attendance Policies at Freakanomics
There is a very interesting discussion at the Freakonomics blog (same authors as the book)…
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Do you support transfer students?
Academic Success supports many different types of students, but one group we don't hear much…
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Covering Material or Answering Questions?
I had the privilege of teaching at CLEO's Attitude is Essential 3-day workshop in Atlanta…
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Learning your teaching style
We write a lot about discovering student's learning and processing styles. But few of us…
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PowerPoint for Teaching and Learning
I sat in on an Business Law class yesterday. I sat in the back of…
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The Educational Bookends
Two teaching techniques are known as the educational bookends: previews and summaries. The idea is…