Is it Time to Take Advantage of Automatic Grading?

Multiple-choice exams are common practice in many college science courses, and there are countless strategies lying around about how to speed up the processes of writing, scoring, and recording student performance.  One of the most common strategies used to grade...

Students Benefit from a Highly Structured Syllabus

Novice learners—your students—depend on you to have sufficient knowledge of the course content and its structure to build a clear and easy-to-follow pathway to successfully learning the course material. Students have little idea what actually learning material in your...

Where to Publish Your Teaching Innovations

As an expert educator, you’ve learned a lot about what works with students and what does not.  But how do you get those ideas out to the broader community, build your credibility, and enhance your CV?  The numerous ways to get out your ideas might surprise you. It is...

Proposing Preposterous Propositions for imProving Pedagogy

Is one of your course goals to help students discern ‘fake news’ from the real thing when running around the Inter-webs?  Do you want your students to learn the habit of being an informed skeptic when encountering documentary-style cable television shows about alien...

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