Gene Editing, Twine, and Counterfactual Games (#LearningatPlay)
Learning at Play was a one-day symposium on games for learning and social change held at Vanderbilt University on November 8, 2019. …
Timelines, EdTech, and Thin Slices of Student Learning
This year the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching is hosting a few educational technology working groups for faculty, staff, and students interested in …
Hacking the Classroom: Ideas from the Next Gen #LearningSpaces Conference
During my workshop at the Next Generation Learning Spaces conference in Nashville last week, I asked participants to hack the classroom, brainstorming …
Course Blogs in the Sciences (#CIRTLForum)
One of the examples Gardner Campbell shared in his keynote at the CIRTL Network Forum the other night was a course blog …
Highlights from #NAIRTL11 (Part 1)
A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Ireland for the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference & Galway Symposium on Higher Education, hosted …
Cheating, Facebook, Clickers, and More – Problems in a Harvard Life Sciences Course
I’ve been following the coverage of the alleged mass cheating in Harvard University’s Life Sciences 1b course. The Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper, …
Using Twitter to Teach Ornithology – Tweets about Tweeters (#EDUSprint, #BirdClass)
Number five on my list of five types of mobile learning is the use of mobile devices while “in the field.” One …
Clickers in Biological Sciences
Clyde Herreid of the University of Buffalo’s National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science has received a $500,00 grant from the …
Article: Smith et al. (2009)
An article in last Friday’s edition of the journal Science on peer instruction, a pedagogy often used with (and enhanced by) clickers, …
Article: Crossgrove & Curran (2008)
Reference: Crossgrove, K., & Curran, K. L. (2008). Using clickers in nonmajors- and majors-level biology courses: Student opinion, learning, and long-term retention …