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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching. Well, I always hesitate to use myself as data.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. These contract faculty often cobble together patchwork teaching schedules across multiple colleges each semester.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

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This article is from The Teaching Professor. For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. At the end I identify clear and actionable changes that I will make the next time I teach the course. They always did. All rights reserved.

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16 Education Podcasts to Check Out In 2017

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When asking around, several folks we talked to praised Teaching in Higher Ed as a podcast with particularly engaging discussions. Teaching Strategies Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle school teacher, hosts this podcast as part of her popular blog on teaching strategies, education reform, and ed tech.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

This article is from The Teaching Professor. For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. At the end I identify clear and actionable changes that I will make the next time I teach the course. They always did. All rights reserved.

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Death of a Traditional Lecture

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Faculty and pedagogists alike have been aware of the illness and many attempted to replace the traditional lecture with some alternative learning approaches which have been housed under various buzzwords such as “flipped classroom” (Milman, 2012), “experiential learning” (Wurdinger, 2005), and “blended learning” (Pavla, 2014).

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Death of a Traditional Lecture

Faculty Focus

Faculty and pedagogists alike have been aware of the illness and many attempted to replace the traditional lecture with some alternative learning approaches which have been housed under various buzzwords such as “flipped classroom” (Milman, 2012), “experiential learning” (Wurdinger, 2005), and “blended learning” (Pavla, 2014).