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Let’s Play a Game: Student-Created Simulations

John A. Tures, Andrew Cunningham, Karson Troth, Jaydon Parrish, Chase Davis, Hannah Godfrey, DeQueze Fryer, Tamino Schoeffer, Daniel Cody, Shedrick Lindsey, Emaleigh Turner, Daniel Cody, Jenna Pittman, and Elijah Rogers April 17, 2023

Simulations are an opportunity for experiential learning, but faculty who use them usually adopt simulations that they created or found. An alternative is to have students create the simulation themselves as a learning activity.

What advantages do student-created simulations offer?

Creating the Constellation: Allowing Students to Make Meaning in Our Courses

Paul Hanstedt April 10, 2023

The best final exam question I’ve ever given is this: “I want you to write about one thing that you figured out in this class that matters.”

This sounds simple, I know. Perhaps even a little flaky. After all, we’re the instructors. We’re the

Five Ways to Help Your Students Become Better Critical Thinkers

Louis E. Newman April 10, 2023

I had been teaching for nearly 30 years when I discovered that I had failed to instruct my students in the basics of critical thinking.

My moment of awakening occurred in a conversation with one of the best students in that year’s graduating class.

Ethical Issues with AI in Online Education

John Orlando April 10, 2023

ChatGPT set the education world ablaze with discussion of its implications. The initial worry about students using it to write their assignments was alleviated with detection software such as GPT-2 Output Detector, and the discussion quickly turned to how instructors

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Reading Your Student Evaluations

Regan A. R. Gurung April 3, 2023

A junior colleague asked me whether teaching for many years made me thicker skinned. They wondered whether reading student evaluations gets easier with time.

I was reminded of an essay by Stephen Marche (2023) on writers and the reviews they receive. Marche recounts the

Unlocking Deeper Learning: The Benefits and How-tos of Incorporating Oral Exams into Your Teaching Practice

Emily Dosmar April 3, 2023

“This is going to be very casual,” I tell each student at the beginning of their neurophysiology oral exam. “I’m going to ask you some questions; feel free to take your time and reference your notes.” My experience with oral exams began in high

Writing versus Thinking Skills: A False Dichotomy

John Orlando April 3, 2023

When I first began teaching philosophy, I had a standard comment on assignments for students whose writing was unclear:

While you understand the content, you are having trouble getting down on paper what you know. Note the areas that I marked as

Getting beyond the Details: Helping Students Develop a Knowledge Framework

Amy B. Mulnix March 27, 2023

You’re teaching an intro class; it’s three weeks into the semester, and you’ve just returned a high-stakes assessment to the students. The next time you look at your inbox, there’s an abundance of email from students wanting to make appointments because “they worked really

Creating an Engaging and Effective Classroom Experience by Thinking with Things

Sarah Kuhn March 27, 2023

Several years into my 30-year career as a professor, I had an experience that ultimately upended my entire approach to teaching. I came to see the conventional classroom in a whole new way—as a sensory deprivation chamber—and developed a hands-on antidote I call “thinking

Teaching with 360-Degree Video

Eileen M. Grodziak, Kathleen J. Morgan, and Ana I. Serrano-Martinez March 27, 2023

Three hundred sixty–degree (360°) video provides an opportunity for students to have an immersive experience of a location they’re studying in class. Prices have dropped to a point where institutions generally have 360° cameras available for instructors to use. Students can play 360° videos

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