At the Friday Forum on February 7th, we heard from three different NMC instructors about their experiences teaching in active learning classrooms. Thank you to Diane Emling, Laura Jaquish, and Mary Lou Deutsch for sharing best practices and how they use(d) the...
Time. There is never enough. But maybe, just maybe you have time to share one sentence. Share an idea or piece of advice that someone mentioned at the copy machine or heard at a conference workshop or read in a book or blog post. Did you receive a tip when you were...
Nothing gets those neurons firing like active learning. Active Learning Definitions: NMC’s compilation of definitions University of Minnesota’s definition The 21st Century Learning Experiences AQIP team would like to know what you think about active...
In higher ed, reaching out and making contact with students early on in the semester is a newly promoted strategy for student success. Reflecting on strategies I’ve seen instructors implement successfully, the old slogan, “reach out and touch...
That may sound over-dramatic when referring to the first few seconds when our students arrive, but research says differently. According to Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005). “ …this ability we have as humans, to quickly...
