I love to see how teaching practices play out in different disciplines. Thanks to a pingback on a 2015 blog post of mine, I learned about a really interesting application of in-class polling and debate maps by a visual arts instructor at the University of British Columbia. These are two …
I’ve been teaching my first-year writing seminar on cryptography off and on since 2010, and yet I still feel like a rookie when it comes to teaching writing. I’ve learned a lot, certainly, but there always seems more to learn. That’s why I was excited about the theme of the …
Last fall at the POD Network conference for educational developers, I interviewed D. Christopher Brooks for Vanderbilt’s Leading Lines podcast. I met …
For some, teaching is a fairly intuitive act. But thanks to research from the fields of education, psychology, and elsewhere, we know …
Last weekend, Ian Bogost made a website, buns.life, that lets you make a graphic featuring words between hamburger buns. Why? Because Ian …
Back in college, a friend named Chad introduced me to the board game Settlers of Catan. More precisely, he introduced me to …
I really enjoy writing. You might not think that, given how infrequently I’ve been posting on this blog. That’s mostly because I’ve …
One of the themes we build into much of our work at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching is the notion of engaging …
I’m happy to announce the start of Season 3 of Leading Lines, a podcast on educational technology co-produced by the Center for …
Inside Higher Ed published a great piece last week by Nick Roll looking at changes in classroom response systems. At many campuses, …