Each year, we provide you with a list of recent teaching & learning related books that CITL staff have read over the year and would recommend to others for summer reading. This summer I’d like to change it up a bit. Online instruction has become a timely concern for faculty & students. While you did… Read more »
Technological advances, growing disciplinary knowledge bases, and a changing student population have fueled many changes over the last 200 years in what the college classroom looks like. As faculty members, we are no longer limited to the four walls of the classroom and a chalkboard. Now we can connect with our students inside the classroom,… Read more »
In the last part of this series, we filled our in-class framework with activities that allow our students to collaborate on the advanced learning objectives to achieve mastery. For this final part, we’ll be designing a pre-class session focusing on our basic learning objectives that students complete on their own. Our primary goal is to… Read more »
In Part 2, we created our learning objectives (LOs) and sorted them based on their level of cognitive complexity. We begin part three by planning the in-class portion where students will have peer and instructor support in achieving the advanced LOs. Whether a person is planning a traditional lecture or a flipped class, it’s important… Read more »
In the first part of this series, I provided a comprehensive list of learning objectives (LOs) for classes. I tried to ensure that this list wasn’t too exhaustive, making sure to consolidate repetitive and less significant objectives. In this part, we will order these objectives by cognitive complexity, starting from the lower levels and working… Read more »
This is the first post in a series about how to flip your classes, an approach that moves some content delivery outside of the classroom in order to provide in-class time for practice in applying that information to build new knowledge. It is suggested that, like all new instructional approaches, you try flipping one class… Read more »
