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Diversifying the Role Course Content Plays
Maryellen Weimer discusses the role of content in her highly-acclaimed "Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice" (Osterlin's CIE collection has a few copies). In this recent article for The Teaching Professor Blog, she challenges us once again to look...
The Power of Choice
"The main ingredient in all success is wise choices. That's because the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of the choices we make on a daily basis." Skip Downing, On Course, Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life. The Wise Choice Process...
How Do You Teach Bright Students to Ask for Help?
“Most people are hung up on the idea of asking for help. From the time we're born, we are told that the American ethic is self-reliance. Pull your own weight, row your own boat, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and a host of other similar sayings pervade our...
Accessibility Experience – Ready to Listen?
Listen to your content As educators we spend a lot of time planning and designing the learning environment for our students. Documents and web content are an important part of supporting that learning environment; from the welcome message, the syllabus, the course...