A paper (pdf below) published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science reports a meta-analysis of some 250 studies of effectiveness of lecturing
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Another Buzzword or The Holy Grail: Knowledge Transfer
The basic idea – generalizing from something learned in one context and applying it in another – seems sound, if a tad obvious. But is
Problem Based Science Education at UMass
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The Cartwheeling Classroom
Cathy Davidson is the author, most recently, of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and
Is "Flipping the Classroom" New? What’s Good About It?
In this post on Tomorrow’s Professor, Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas at Austin, asks “Flipped Classrooms— Old or New?” She describes the technique, notes its roots in
Another "What We Know about Teaching and Learning" Sampler
Kathleen McKinney is a sociologist who focuses on the “scholarship of teaching and learning” in sociology. These lists are not earth-shattering or paradigm-busting (some are
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