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7 Keys to Effective Feedback by Grant Wiggins
Full article available here. Excerpts below. Advice, evaluation, grades—none of these provide the descriptive information that students need to reach their goals. What is true feedback—and how can it improve learning? … Decades of education research support the idea that by teaching less and providing more feedback, we can produce greater learning (see Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000; Hattie,…
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Teaching Strategies
How creating ways to meet students individually can help them buy into a course.
Full article available here. Excerpts below. … It’s important, Gurung has found, to make help available in a variety of ways, because not every student is the same, and because the communication habits of young adults keep evolving as the years go by. During class, Gurung circulates through the lecture-hall aisles and calls on students…
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AI Resource- Duke University’s AI Ethics Learning Toolkit
Access the toolkit hereIn the spring of 2025, Duke Libraries and CARADITE launched a project to explore ways of incorporating AI ethics into instruction and student learning. Our research and design team has co-created this easy-to-implement, student-centered AI Ethics Learning Toolkit to help instructors engage students in critical conversations about AI across disciplines.
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Faculty Opportunities
McKeen Center Dialogue Resources for Faculty
Are you interested in spurring more conversation in your classroom or helping students develop their constructive dialogue skills? The McKeen Center has a variety of resources available to support…
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Fall Research Award
Bowdoin’s Fall Research Award (formerly the Grua/O’Connell Research Award), open to students from all disciplines. Funding from this award can be used in myriad ways to substantially enhance Bowdoin students’ honors projects…
Faculty Writing Accountability Groups
“Participating in the Accountability Groups was fundamental for achieving my goal of an accepted peer-reviewed article. Lisa and other faculty incentivized me to send my article even when I…