When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...
What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...
In graduate school, I specialized in 19th-century American literature, expecting that, as a faculty member, I would probably teach a survey course and seminars in autobiography, romanticism, the ...
This past quarter, students and faculty alike noticed that lectures were constantly interrupted by a cacophony of coughing from students. In previous years, such coughing could be written off as the ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was no surprise to Paul Lopez to hear his professors on the radio while he was driving to a ...
After suffering a traumatic brain injury six years ago, Christina Beck, a senior at New York University, had to adjust to a whole new reality. This included learning how to cope with memory loss, ...
Midterms have rolled in like a storm the past couple of weeks. As I was going over my notes and practice exams for my neuroscience class, I was overwhelmed by some weird Greek terminology so obscure ...
On March 12 and 13, 2020, the University of Michigan cancelled class to prepare the whole campus for emergency remote teaching starting on March 16. In that brief interim, the institution made Zoom ...
What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...