Building a Better Podcast Assignment
I’m excited to share that my cryptography students and I will launch the third season of our class podcast, One-Time Pod, this …
Announcing VandyVox, a “Podcast of Podcasts”
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog I am very excited to announce a new podcast from the Vanderbilt Center for …
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 Digital Timelines
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching blog. This year the Center for Teaching hosted a few educational technology working groups …
Teaching Cryptography, Writing History
Cross-posted from Wonders & Marvels. When you teach mathematics, it’s not every semester that a major motion picture is released that’s squarely …
The Points Don’t Matter: MOOCs, Resumes, and Learning
Consider this an addendum to my last post recapping the recent Coursera Partners Conference in London. As I mentioned in that post, …
Beyond the Five-Page Paper: Representing Student Learning Visually
As I look over the “visual learning” category here on the blog, I noticed that I haven’t posted slides from a presentation …
Lessons Learned from Vanderbilt’s First MOOCs
Last month, I shared on the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog a report on Vanderbilt’s first three MOOCs. I’m cross-posting that report …
Motivating and Equipping Students to Make a Difference
Earlier in the summer, after reading the first two chapters of Andrew Delbanco’s College: What It Was, Is and Should Be, I wondered …
The Mystery of Teaching
This summer I’m reading College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Columbia University humanities professor Andrew Delbanco, and I’m sharing …