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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

Edsurge

Solving them may require training young scholars to be “ wicked students ,” to use a phrase from Paul Hanstedt, director of the Washington & Lee University teaching and learning center. The first step in reconciling these tensions is to anchor some of these claims in data from the student side of the equation. They sure do!

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! How was it possible that my students weren’t enjoying this as much as I was? When the time was up, the students in one row moved down the line and the process began again with a new partner. And so were the students.

Lecturing 111
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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! How was it possible that my students weren’t enjoying this as much as I was? When the time was up, the students in one row moved down the line and the process began again with a new partner. And so were the students.

Lecturing 109