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Lecture Breakers Virtual Summer Conference, June 7-9, 2022

I’m quite honored to be speaking at the 3rd annual Lecture Breakers Virtual Summer Conference this coming June! Educator and consultant Barbi Honeycutt started Lecture Breakers as a podcast back in 2019, interviewing guests from all over higher education about ways to create more active learning environments for students. In 2020, the …

Derek Bruff March 25, 2022 Meta Permalink
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The Trouble with Grades

I’m not sure there’s a precise definition yet for ungrading, but it usually refers to some combination of questioning the role of grades and grading in education along with efforts by instructors to move away from traditional uses of grades and grading toward something more student-centered. I’ve been tracking the conversation …

Derek Bruff February 28, 2022 Assessment, Faculty Development Permalink
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How Does the Fourth Season of a Course Podcast Work?

Asking my first-year writing students to create short audio pieces in lieu of written essays was a bit of a gamble the …

Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Leading Lines Podcast

Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog… Five years ago, I pitched the idea of a podcast about educational technology to …

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Mastery Quizzes for Mastery Learning

This past spring, I made a number of changes to my first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of cryptography. Some …

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Asynchronous Active Learning with Perusall

After spending most of 2020 helping faculty and other instructors prepare to teach in online and hybrid contexts, I had the chance …

Teaching with Perusall and Social Annotation – Highlights from a Conversation

Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog. This summer, hundreds of participants in the Center for Teaching’s Online Course Design Institute …

Teaching in a Hybrid Classroom – What’s Working, What’s Not

Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog. For some instructors, the classroom looks very different this fall. Some of their students …

Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms

Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog. If you’ve read Norman Clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced …

Intentional Technology for Remote Teaching and Learning

Last month, I gave a talk about my new book, Intentional Tech, at the University of Waterloo. The night before my talk, …

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I'm Derek Bruff, the director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, and this is my blog on teaching and technology. For more on this topic, check out Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching, from West Virginia University Press, or the educational technology podcast I host, Leading Lines.

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