Faculty are often searching for practical strategies to make their teaching engaging and impactful. The following information outlines some common teaching goals, along with the active learning ...

Activities are the experiences that allow students to achieve learning outcomes. These may consist of readings, lectures, group work, labs or projects to name a few. While situations and learning ...

Brady Krien is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Iowa where he teaches in the Department of Rhetoric and serves as the Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Center for ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Our students have a great deal of background knowledge that teachers need to activate so that they can learn new content. And students need to be provided with additional background knowledge so that ...

After years of district experiments on ways to increase learning time for students, the pandemic has created something of an unintended study of what kind of and how much learning time students will ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

The ECTL Certification and Badge Program offers an opportunity for UW instructors to further develop as informed scholars, teachers, and effective educators. This self-directed certification and badge ...

C olleges and universities should close teaching and learning centers because they threaten good teaching. That’s the argument of a recent essay in these pages by Paul Schofield. Before getting into ...

Active Learning has been referred to as many things, including “project-based learning” and “flipped classes.” The fundamental premise of active learning is the replacement of passive class time with ...