Category: Featured
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Blog: Friction and Learning
by Sarah Rose Cavanagh, April 22, 2024 Link to blog Friction gets a bad rap. It calls to mind furry felines petted in the wrong direction, relationships hitting the skids, and small inconveniences that get under our skin. Indeed, “friction” is a term psychologists use to describe small impediments that have outsize influence on our…
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Tips for a Calm End of the Semester
by Roxanne Donovan, founder of WellAcademic … This is the time when the number of things that need to get done far exceeds the hours available to do them. The pull is to accelerate: to forgo sleep and squeeze as much work as possible into every waking minute. … these behaviors have problematic physical, psychic, and…
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Beyond Memorization: Strategies for Long-Term Retention
By: Safieh Moghaddam, PhD, and Malama Tsimenis, PhD Full text here. Excerpts below. How can we boost student learning retention in our courses? How can we help our students transform newly acquired information into long-term knowledge they can recall and activate in the future? Colleges and universities can be overwhelming for many students, especially first-year…
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Mid-Course Student Feedback Questionnaire Ideas (Bowdoin instructors and others)
Course instructors are encouraged to collect student feedback at the mid-point or multiple times throughout the semester. The feedback benefits you in thinking about adjustments to make with the course, and it also serves as a reflection for students to reconsider how they might approach the class in more effective ways for the second half.…
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Supporting Students Through Setbacks
JANUARY 18, 2024 From: Beckie Supiano Subject: Teaching: How to help students learn from setbacks Struggle and failure can be powerful learning experiences; but because they’re unpleasant, students who experience them may instead disengage. How can instructors support students through challenges and setbacks so that they’re better able to learn and less likely to give up? I…