Active Learning Classrooms: What We Know
Last fall at the POD Network conference for educational developers, I interviewed D. Christopher Brooks for Vanderbilt’s Leading Lines podcast. I met …
Teaching Board Games #2: The Big Picture
For some, teaching is a fairly intuitive act. But thanks to research from the fields of education, psychology, and elsewhere, we know …
Wise Feedback and Compliment Sandwiches
Last weekend, Ian Bogost made a website, buns.life, that lets you make a graphic featuring words between hamburger buns. Why? Because Ian …
Teaching Board Games #1: Mental Models
Back in college, a friend named Chad introduced me to the board game Settlers of Catan. More precisely, he introduced me to …
Writing Life
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 …
Students as (Podcast) Producers
One of the themes we build into much of our work at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching is the notion of engaging …
Teaching with Blogs: An Interview with Humberto Garcia
I’m happy to announce the start of Season 3 of Leading Lines, a podcast on educational technology co-produced by the Center for …
Students, Please Get Out Your Phones
Inside Higher Ed published a great piece last week by Nick Roll looking at changes in classroom response systems. At many campuses, …
Leading Lines Season 1
The tenth episode of our educational technology podcast, Leading Lines, was released today. It features an interview by my colleague Cliff Anderson, …
Evidence-Based STEM Teaching: Free Online Courses Launch September 19th
I am once again co-teaching a free online course on evidence-based STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) teaching this fall. In fact, …