by Tim Slater | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog
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...
by Tim Slater | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog
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...
by Tim Slater | Sep 26, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Tim Slater | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Tim Slater | Apr 30, 2017 | Blog
Do you wonder if the rapidly growing costs of traditional textbooks are worth the immense cost students are being asked to bear? Both you and your students probably know that there are countless free and frequently updated web pages out there providing much of the...
by Tim Slater | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog
We’ve all caught ourselves saying, “teaching would be so much more fun if I didn’t have to do all of this grading” when sitting down to an enormous stack of papers (or electronic files) to grade. But grading all of those assignments doesn’t have to be chore, if you...
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