5 Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn

5 Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn

This short article from Mind/Shift (http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/03/5-tools-to-help-students-learn-how-to-learn/) defines inquiry learning. The article appears intended for K-12, but it applies well to higher education too.   Helping students learn how to...
Variations on a theme as the crux of creativity

Variations on a theme as the crux of creativity

It’s the start of the semester.  Choices abound on how to be successful.  Others give you advice, the web is full of advice, and you give yourself advice based on  past experience.  How do you or any instructor sort through all of the advice and stay true to...