How far would your school go to help first-year students thrive? Would it strike a couple hours off of their class schedules? Would it set aside time every single week for everybody to get some exercise? More on that in…
Category: Student Success
The psychology of transparency, and what it means for learning
Posted in Course Redesign, First-year Learning Initiative, Higher Education, Ideas and Resources, Student Success, and Trends and Change
Have you heard of the transparency concept in teaching gateway courses?
Failure’s fifteen minutes, and my own lesson learned
Posted in Higher Education, K-12, and Student Success
Failure is having a bit of a moment.
When I write about classroom atmosphere, it’s usually about ways to open the semester strong: setting high standards and an expectation that the class will be challenging, getting feedback out to students as soon as practical.
Student effort: Taboo, a third rail, or something we need to be talking about?
Posted in Course Redesign, First-year Learning Initiative, Higher Education, Student Success, Technology, and Trends and Change
I work in public higher education, where cost-quality tradeoffs have become a more-or-less permanent feature of the landscape.