Teaching Strategies and Techniques

Understanding Student Resistance to Active Learning

Michael Prince, PhD and Maryellen Weimer, PhD November 2, 2017

Fear of student resistance prevents many college teachers from adopting active learning strategies. That’s unfortunate, because these strategies have been shown to significantly increase student learning, improve retention in academic programs, and provide especially strong benefits to traditionally underrepresented student groups. Addressing two key questions

Should Students Form Their Own Groups?

Maryellen Weimer October 26, 2017

It’s one of the questions always asked by faculty using group work. Sometimes students tell the teacher they want to form their own groups. Teachers worry about those students who aren’t well connected with others in the class. Will they be invited to join a

Student Group Research Projects

Maryellen Weimer October 26, 2017

It’s a favorite assignment in upper-division major courses—have students collaborate on a research project. The rationale is straightforward. Students learn how to do research by doing it. Of course it depends, but in most fields, students new to research find it a daunting process that

Student Resistance: Fact or Fiction

Maryellen Weimer October 26, 2017

When faculty consider adopting a new instructional approach, there’s always a question about how it will be received by students. Will they engage with it and learn from it, or will they resist, as in complain, participate reluctantly, and give the course and instructor low

brief moments of inquiry in college classroom

Using Brief Moments of Inquiry to Enrich Student Learning

Linda K. Shadiow, PhD October 1, 2017

Who discovered Pluto?

A colleague described this brief exchange he had with his young daughter as they crossed Tombaugh Street in Flagstaff, Arizona. My colleague, ever the professor, pointed out that the street was named for local astronomer Clyde Tombaugh who had discovered Pluto

Afterthoughts

Julie Empric October 1, 2017

In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that meet a prescribed number of times per week across the term or semester. It’s a format that’s simultaneously efficient and inhibiting. It effectively facilitates sequenced and accretive design but regularly loses opportunities to maximize deep learning

Flipped Learning Mistakes

John Orlando September 29, 2017

“Flipped learning” has become a hot catchphrase in education circles as of late, with many faculty members feeling the pressure to flip their courses to escape the drawbacks of the traditional “stand and deliver” model of teaching. The flipped learning model takes the traditional in-class

The Purpose of Educational Technology Is Interactivity

John Orlando September 29, 2017

I recently delivered the keynote speech at a teaching conference for medical school faculty. The theme of the conference was Technology in Teaching, and the organizers asked that my keynote serve as a motivational pitch to get faculty members interested in using technology in their

Is It Relevant to Students?

Maryellen Weimer September 19, 2017

If what we’re teaching is relevant to students’ personal lives, future careers, and current success, that’s motivating, Leah Hoops observes and documents with references. If it’s not, students either don’t learn what we’re teaching or don’t learn it very well. Of course, from our vantage

Ways to Promote Student Responsibility for Learning

Maryellen Weimer September 6, 2017

As noted in the Teaching Professor Blog post, student responsibility for learning can happen in three different arenas. First and foremost, students are responsible for their learning. Teachers can encourage and support learning endeavors in a variety of ways, but students must do

Teaching Strategies and Techniques

Understanding Student Resistance to Active Learning

Should Students Form Their Own Groups?

Student Group Research Projects

Student Resistance: Fact or Fiction

Using Brief Moments of Inquiry to Enrich Student Learning

Afterthoughts

Flipped Learning Mistakes

The Purpose of Educational Technology Is Interactivity

Is It Relevant to Students?

Ways to Promote Student Responsibility for Learning

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