In May I finished a second edition of my Learner-Centered Teaching book. Revising it gave me the chance to revisit my thinking about the
I’ve had some nagging concerns about PowerPoint for some time now. I should be upfront and admit to not using it; when I taught
“Why should we change the way we teach?” a marketing professor asked with an honest gaze and a smile that bespoke sincerity. It was early
“I just don’t see how students learn anything when they talk to each other,” a faculty member told me recently. “Their conversations are so superficial.
I started thinking about the topic of points distribution when I wondered in a previous blog whether the 5 or 10% that many of us
Not everyone is in favor of offering extra credit and those who are opposed object most strongly when it’s the students who aren’t working hard
The participation issue that seems as perplexing and less resolved than the how-much-should-it count question is the practice of trying to motivate participation by offering
I remember being surprised when I first read the results of a survey on extra credit published some years ago in Teaching of Psychology. Almost
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