Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Over a Cup of Coffee: June 15th Edition

Sharon Guan of Instructional Design and Development (IDD) discusses how letting her students do creative work, engaged them deeply in a Chinese language course.

ProfHacker offers some ideas on how course design can deter plagiarism and cheating.

The Chronicle of Higher Education posts on a faculty member who uses Star Trek to teach ethics.

Faculty Focus provides a bibliography of recent award winning articles covering teaching and learning.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Over a Cup of Coffee: June 8th Edition

Faculty Focus describes an assignment that puts students in a mindset for collaborative work.

Tomorrow's Professor Blog looks at current research on how to help students learn factual knowledge in preparation for analysis and synthesis of that information.

The Teaching Professor covers research on student perceptions of group work.

ProfHacker covers methods for encouraging students' digital problem-solving skills.