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Category Archives: Pedagogy
Peer mentoring: Strengthening student learning
Bryanne Young has written a tip sheet on curricular peer mentoring, a program that “enables students to work together to delve deeper and more analytically into course content”. Peer mentors are not TAs, but students who can help guide their … Continue reading
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Some guidelines for implementing active learning strategies
After sitting through a couple of workshops that used active learning strategies with varying success, I drafted the following guidelines for facilitators. Feel free to add your own to this list: Icebreaker activities are a great way to build community … Continue reading
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Teach large classes
Large enrollment classes have always been a challenge for instructors who try to implement active teaching and learning strategies and activities. Lectures, often contrasted to active learning, appear to dominate large size classrooms today. From the conversations that I had … Continue reading
Links from George Siemens’ Presentation
George Siemens (Associate Director of the University of Manitoba Learning Technologies Centre) was on campus on March 11 to give a presentation at the Teaching & Learning Centre, on “The Social Technology Revolution – Tensions and Solutions”. He talked about … Continue reading
How to get students to find and read 94 articles before the next class
Professor Michael Wesch, of Kansas State University, recently described how his students distributed the tasks of finding and reviewing articles, and then sharing their summaries so that in effect, all students were aware of the content of all articles summarized. The key: … Continue reading
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