Teach Hub

MARCH 15, 2024

From individual laptops to interactive whiteboards to tablets loaded with educational apps, tech tools have transformed our classrooms. Ways to Unplug From Classroom Tech Implementing strategies to disconnect from digital tools offers an enriching educational experience. Here are three ideas on how to foster more human interaction.

Technology 111

Technology Art Attention Research Methods 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada. Our experiences as educators in this context has shown us the value of encouraging PSTs to share their stories about what propelled them into the world of education while sharing our own stories.

Math 98

Math Teaching Teachers Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I don’t recall exactly how I responded in the moment, but with the benefit of hindsight I now know it was a tremor in what would become a seismic shift in our educational landscape. Students who are in their late teens or early twenties have spent their educational experiences navigating misinformation, fake news, and alternative facts.

Teaching 130

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 130

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

Technology 98

Technology Art Learning Students 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I don’t recall exactly how I responded in the moment, but with the benefit of hindsight I now know it was a tremor in what would become a seismic shift in our educational landscape. Students who are in their late teens or early twenties have spent their educational experiences navigating misinformation, fake news, and alternative facts.

Teaching 111

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention. Kahneman, D. Allshouse L.M.,

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

Faculty Focus

JUNE 6, 2023

These labs are knowledge-intensive, and students must learn thousands of new terms in just a few months. Fortunately, Google Sites allows you to create a simple, free, and effective website you can use for your classes without any need for coding knowledge or help from a third party.

Accessibility 69

Accessibility Course Design Students Research Methods 69

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention. Kahneman, D. Allshouse L.M.,

Attention 111

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 111

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Learner-Centered Teaching There is growing emphasis on the quality of teaching and learning in higher education, due in part to the increased focus on accountability (Gore et al., Scholars have identified a gap between desired outcomes and instructional methods employed in the college classroom (Duch et al., Image courtesy of Wix.

Teaching 52

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Problem-Based Learning 52

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was raised above all else to not only revere education, but to literally show respect to educators and elders by being a dutiful, quiet, listening and obedient learner. This guest speaker was talking about how to run group interviews, and she, a white woman, was imparting what she learned from years of research with various U.S.

Education 178

Education Schools Questions Culture 178

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Philosophical qualms aside, supporters of skills-based hiring and education say it’s tantalizing to think of the potential that could be unlocked by breaking jobs down into their itty bitty parts—like mapping the human genome, one coil of DNA at a time—then applying that information to engineer new opportunities to connect people with employment.

Skills 190

Skills Intelligence Syllabus Languages 190

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Last fall I started my first day on the job as an embedded faculty member with a corporation—as a scholar-in-residence at Steelcase Education. I’ve kept my eyes open, taken a notebook full of notes, and spent time every day processing what I was seeing and speculating about how the best things I saw might function in higher education.

Learning 123

Learning Culture Research Methods Learning Spaces 123