This week:

  • I share reader insights into what works for them as Covid continues to affect teaching.
  • I point you to a new meta-study on active learning.
  • I share stories about teaching you may have missed.

Excepts below. For the complete newsletter: https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/teaching/2021-10-14

What Works

Make note-taking easier

Foster online discussions

Offer flexibility with assignments

Allow students to record presentations

Get creative with final projects

More Research on Flipped Learning

A new meta-analysis on flipped learning, reviewing data from more than 300 studies, offers some food for thought. “To Flip or Not to Flip? A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Flipped Learning in Higher Education,” in the Review of Educational Research, found overall positive results with flipped learning. But as two of the authors, Patricia Roehling and Carrie Bredow, explain in this Brown Center Chalkboard post, it’s important to consider what you’re measuring and in what context.

ICYMI

  • “What is something that you were taught was good pedagogy but actually is not?” Read the responses in this informative Twitter thread started by Guy McHendry, an associate professor of communication studies at Creighton University.
  • Beckie and I have been enjoying this video, “Worst Lecture Ever,” produced by Lindsay Masland, an associate professor of psychology and the coordinator for early career programs for the Center for Academic Excellence at Appalachian State University. We see a second career in acting for Lindsay.