Teaching with Clickers in Medical Resident Education
Back in the day, this blog was nothing but posts about teaching with clickers. (I had just written a book on the …
Learning Analytics, Program Assessment, and the Scholarship of Teaching #EDUSprint
A few years ago my university was up for re-accreditation. Our accrediting body wanted every undergraduate major and professional program to submit …
A Crowdsourced Rubric for Evaluating Infographics
I’m teaching a statistics course this spring. It’s the fourth time I’ve taught this course, and, in an effort to make it …
Concept Maps at the Beginning, Middle, and End
I’ve been collecting links to resources on the use of visual thinking in teaching and learning. Here are three resources that go …
Highlights from #NAIRTL11 (Part 2)
Here’s part two of my report from the the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference & Galway Symposium on Higher Education, hosted at the …
Some Answers to Tough Questions about Grading Standards
You may recall my post from a few weeks ago, “Tough Questions about Grading Standards.” In that post I tried to reconcile …
Student Perceptions of Learning Goals – More from My Course Evals
Yesterday I blogged about the challenge of setting appropriate grading standards in my first-year cryptography course. Today, I’d like to follow up …
Tough Questions about Grading Standards
I’ve spent some time today reading carefully through my end-of-course student evaluations for my fall cryptography seminar. Our course evals are online …