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Best Practices in Honors Contracts Discussed by WCU Faculty and Students
Honors Update Thinking about new ways of engaging students in Honors Contract projects this semester? Listen in on a panel discussion in which faculty members from a variety of different departments and disciplines talk with Honors students about what makes a great...
Contemplative Practices for an Engaged Classroom with Dr. Jane E. Dalton
Jane E. Dalton Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am Room 150, Bardo Arts CenterWorkshop will include: Overview of contemplative pedagogy and practices including embodied learning and slow pedagogy. Explore how standard university courses and K12 classrooms can...
Important tips for putting VR experiences into your teaching
The Hunter Library VR room serves as a place for you and your students to explore virtual reality. Before making an assignment, lab exercise, or project that requires students to use the library’s VR room, it will be helpful to know the following: 1) Contact the VR...
What Does Student Engagement Mean in your Discipline?
A summer 2018 volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning focuses on student engagement. Ten chapters worth! One interesting chapter, Students Engaged in Learning, is worth a close read. (the link to the full article can be found at the bottom of this post)....
Helping your New Students in Blackboard
Helping your students At the beginning of the semester there are always many students new to using Blackboard. Here are a few resources for helping your students get more comfortable with Blackboard as they begin the semester. Every course in Blackboard has links to...
Secret Reading Weapon: Your Textbook’s TOC
When asking students to read for homework, do we ask them to simply “read the chapter”? Or do we discuss reading strategies that can help make reading a more active process?
Your Brain on Writing
What happens in the brain when we write?
Using Open-Note Quizzes to Facilitate Listening, Encoding and Retrieval
Open-note quizzes may seem like a practice too juvenile for university students, but consider how the open-note quiz encourages several practices that faculty are fond of…
Improve Student Note-Taking
A 2014 study by Mueller and Oppenheimer indicated that students who took notes in class with their computer performed more poorly than students who took notes by hand.