January 29, 2021Why Letting Your Students Collaborate on Exams isn’t a Bad Ideaby David BuckCollaborative testing (aka team-based testing) is a collaborative learning technique that has received a fair amount of attention from researchers (LoGiudice, Pachai, and Kim 2015). It is a practice that typically involves students taking a test individually and then taking…
January 26, 2021Designing Environments Where Integrative Learning Can Flourishby Nancy BudwigJames Barber’s Facilitating the Integration of Learning: Five Research-based Practices to Help College Students Connect Learning across Disciplines and Lived Experiences (Stylus 2020) is one of the few books that delivers more than its title promises. The middle section of…
January 11, 2021Resources and Strategies for Creating More Inclusive Teaching-Learning Spacesby Andrea N. HuntThe Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning (2017) at Brown University defines inclusive teaching as “an explicit intellectual and affective inclusion of all students into our fields and disciplines, through course content, assessment, and/or pedagogy.” This definition was developed based…