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 …
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 …
Asking my first-year writing students to create short audio pieces in lieu of written essays was a bit of a gamble the …
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog… Five years ago, I pitched the idea of a podcast about educational technology to …
This past spring, I made a number of changes to my first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of cryptography. Some …
After spending most of 2020 helping faculty and other instructors prepare to teach in online and hybrid contexts, I had the chance …
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog. This summer, hundreds of participants in the Center for Teaching’s Online Course Design Institute …
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog. For some instructors, the classroom looks very different this fall. Some of their students …
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 …
Last month, I gave a talk about my new book, Intentional Tech, at the University of Waterloo. The night before my talk, …