Thursday, May 27, 2010

Over a cup of coffee: May 27th edition

ProfHacker posts on leading effective classroom discussions on controversial issues. The advice centers around focusing on issues not opinions, bringing in multiple perspectives, and avoid reducing discussion down to binary viewpoints.

Tomorrow's Professor Blog has a comprehensive summary of current research on creating and using Podcasts across the disciplines.

Vanderbilt Center for Teaching Podcast covers teaching first year students.

Faculty Focus poses some questions worth considering when designing and online course to meet the need of a diverse set of students.

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education posts on some technology alternatives to PowerPoint.

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