Change in Student and Teacher Roles When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information. […]

Rapidly shifting your course from in-person to online There are a lot of pedagogical and technical issues that make the shift from in-person to online teaching challenging, but for once, copyright is not a big additional area of worry! Most of the legal issues are the same in both contexts. If it was okay to do in class, […]

I need to define my topic… I need to understand the scope of my topic Academic Info Subject Guides – Browse subject guides with descriptions of relevant sites I need to see related topics Google – Uncover buried sites using “related searches” Bing – Search for your topic, then drill down “related searches” I need to refine […]

What is a Flipped Classroom? Flipped classroom is a “pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter” […]

Have you ever said something seemingly straightforward (to you at least), only to watch as your innocent comments generate untold levels of controversy and drama? Well a little while back I wrote a short post on some poor study habits over at Lifehack.org, and even though it got a bunch of shares on social media, something […]

If there’s one study technique to learn that can make or break your next exam grade, active recall is it. Interested? Read on. Take a look at the quote below, from an engineering student, who just barely managed to pass her Physics 1 course. “I went to every lecture and felt like I understood all […]