Effective Lecturing: Encouraging Students to Take Notes
byThere are lots of benefits in taking notes during lectures. Before slides and handouts, students used to spend the majority of the class trying to…
Teaching research
53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About – Configuring Exams
byIn Idea 10 of Graham Gibbs’ blog, he discusses the idea that “Students’ marks are often determined as much by the way assessment is configured…
Small changes in teaching: Spacing out learning
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
Small changes in teaching: Giving them a say
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
HERDSA 2016: Best paper prize
byDr Kate Thomson (Faculty of Health Sciences), Dr Jen Scott Curwood (Faculty of Education and Social Work) and Associate Professor Martin Tomitsch (Faculty of Architecture,…
Small changes in teaching: making connections
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byThe pick this month from Graham Gibbs’ blog is Idea 33 – that ‘motivating students is not magic‘. The end of a long semester seems…
Student engagement – 53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byIn idea 42, Gibbs argues that student engagement has now become too slippery a concept, and that in invoking it, we need to be…
Class size matters – 53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byIn idea 19, Graham Gibbs revisits the issue of ‘class sizes’ in universities arguing that cohort size is strongly negatively correlated with student performance. In…