Do you have undergraduate teaching assistants and would like to utilize them more effectively? Are you looking for a way to make your large lecture class more active? Consider implementing the Learning Assistants (LA) model. Like other peer instruction models, undergraduates who have successfully completed a course serve as a peer instructor in a subsequent… Read more »
Tag: design
Teams Without Tears: Setting Up Students for Successful Teamwork
Assigning students to work in teams on a project can have a lot of benefits for your students’ learning, but those benefits depend on creating successful student teams. Such teams have positive interdependence among members, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, interpersonal skills, and periodic reflection on the team’s performance. How can you design an assignment so… Read more »
Collaborate with Librarians to Help Your Students Develop Their Research Workflow
Collaborating with librarians is the second in a series of blog posts aimed at addressing plagiarism and how to prevent it in your classes. See the first in the series regarding assignment design, written by Jo Ann Vogt. Future posts in this series will cover how to discuss plagiarism with your students, procedures for following up on… Read more »
Designing Assignments to Promote Academic Honesty
Assignment design can be a powerful tool in your efforts to engage your students with your subject matter and encourage them to do their own work. To make assignments more interesting and less vulnerable to cheating, consider some of these suggestions: Ground assignments in real-world events or in controversies in your field. Ask students to… Read more »
Customizing Canvas to Match Your Style
Canvas offers us help in the classroom with communicating with our students, helping our students communicate with each other, sharing resources, building learning opportunities, checking in on our students learning, and more. But do you ever get the feeling that it all feels a little plain? Or that the site just doesn’t reflect you as… Read more »
Worried about plagiarism in your classes?
Are you concerned that your students will plagiarize? Do you know that there are powerful ways to combat common reasons why students plagiarize? Assignment scaffolding can help students avoid time management problems by providing intermediate deadlines to help them work toward a final project. Careful assignment design can help mitigate students’ feeling that they lack the… Read more »