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Innovation in Teaching

  1. Grit and a Gift for Engineering Pave a Way for Women in STEM

    Gina Cody, the first woman to have an engineering school named after her in Canada, worked relentlessly to distinguish herself in a…

  2. Why It’s Time to Take a Course in Active Learning

    If time travelers from the far future visit our era and look at the history of education, they’ll see a strange blip. Why are students…

  3. Want to Make Education Better? Leave Academia

    Lisa Petrides—founder and CEO of ISKME, an independent education nonprofit—knew she could improve education. But she had to quit her…

  4. Sir Ken Robinson: From Special Ed To Academic Royalty

    Knighted in 2003 for his service to the arts, Sir Ken Robinson, the bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools, charted an…

  5. What To Do If Students Don’t Read The Textbook

    One answer to making sure students actually buy and read their textbooks before class is to write it yourself. And if that's not enough,…

  6. Self-Regulated Learning: 5 Ways to Add it to Your Class

    With so much uncertainty in the job market, self-regulated learning has become an essential skillset for lifelong learning and the ability…

  7. How a Professor’s Puppets Inspire a Creative Writing Class

    Professor Linda M. Rodriguez, Professor of Caribbean Literature, Film, and Creative Writing at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez,…

  8. 4 Creative Teaching Ideas to Use During Your College Course

    Need a boost to your teaching as you enter into the new semester? Here are four creative teaching ideas for each stage of your course, from…

  9. 4 Professors Share Tips On Teaching Diverse Students

    There are no typical students, and no typical classroom. Some students might have never grown up with a university tradition in their…

  10. Online Exam Tools: Some Popular Technologies

    There’s more to testing than paper. And as schools demand assessment technology that is secure, accessible and respects the integrity of…

  11. Engage 2017’s Innovative Educator Awards: Who Won and Why

    Engage 2017 wasn’t just about learning new teaching techniques—it celebrated innovative educators who used new methods to meet their…

  12. Gamifying the Social Psychology Class: Winning Big with Video

    Social psychology, says Professor Alex Nagurney, is typically the course that really animates students’ passion for psychology. “The…

  13. Canada’s Top Edtech Expert: Technology in Class is Inevitable

    Dr. Thierry Karsenti, Canada Research Chair on Technologies in Education, believes technology in class is inevitable and should be embraced…

  14. Student Attendance: An Evaluation of the Top Three Tracking Technologies

    It's essential for instructors to have an accurate attendance tracker. Here's our evaluation of the most popular technologies—polling, GPS…

  15. Washington Profs Counter BS and Fake News with New Course

    An interview with UW profs Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, whose one-credit seminar on battling misinformation has gone viral.

  16. The Multiple Ways Interactive Texts Beat Hard Copy

    Professor Carl Braunlich explains the advantages that an interactive textbook has over print -- it can be kept up-to-date, for one.

  17. Why Your Strategic Learning Plan is Doomed

    About the least effective thing you can do to improve classroom learning is enact a major, centralized plan, according to sociology…

  18. How Pioneer Grace Hopper Changed Computer Science

    After a residential college was named for her at Yale, computer scientist Grace Hopper now has some of the recognition she deserves.

  19. High Touch, High Tech Turns Hospitality Class Into Ready Learners

    How using Top Hat in a class of 200 hospitality students prepares them for a career in a sector that is already being changed by disruptive…

  20. Small Changes in Teaching: The First 5 Minutes of Class

    The opening five minutes offer us a rich opportunity to capture the attention of students and prepare them for learning.