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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)....
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…