Matt O’Grady is a freelance writer, editor and college instructor, based in Vancouver, Canada. A former Editor-in-Chief of BCBusiness magazine and British Columbia Bureau Chief for Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, Matt has a particular interest in issues of government policy and education.
In an extract from our new teaching guide, Innovative and Unexpected Ways to Teach Your College Class, we look at a couple of great gamification examples that can get students enthusiastically preparing for your class while they hope for victory over their peers… and have the side-effect of learning. Innovation isn’t always synonymous with technology. While […]
In the past two decades, centers for teaching and learning have popped up at just about every post-graduate school in North America. But for most of their history, universities and colleges were institutions where disciplinary expertise was established and ultimately disseminated. Teaching—and the study of how students learn—was an afterthought. By the early 1960s, the […]