Remove History Remove Peer Review Remove Syllabus
article thumbnail

Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

Edsurge

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world.

article thumbnail

How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

Edsurge

Then, I designated two peer reviewers for each submitted reading assignment and asked that reviewers respond to the takeaways and ways the learning could be applied, and to provide an answer to the question that was posed by each of the two people they were connected with via the peer review feature.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

Edsurge

College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. The campus is home to several longtime advocates of open and free learning materials.

Textbooks 126
article thumbnail

The Censored and the Curious: Using Banned Books to Foster Connections and Critical Thinking in Freshmen

Faculty Focus

Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy. Focusing on the negative aspects of history and historical figures can be damaging to our sense of patriotism and civic duty.