TiHE Podcast Meets ACUE’s Expert Dive
News Roundup: Sharing Stories, Foundational Skills
This week, ideas for providing students with forums to make their voices heard and addressing the work force skills gap by teaching foundational skills in college. Sign up for The Q Newsletter for weekly news and insights. Sharing Their Stories In response to a student’s question about how to create a safe atmosphere for discussing […]
Active Learning in STEM Courses
Change Magazine: “ACUE makes the link.”
News Roundup: Innovative Teaching
This week, read about how 10 instructors are using innovative methods to teach their students. Sign up for The Q Newsletter for weekly news and insights. When Teaching Large Classes, Don’t Try to Put on a Show Rachel Davenport believes teaching should be a collaboration with students, not a performance. In this podcast, she discusses […]
3 Myths About Active Learning
Three Misconceptions About Using Active Learning in STEM
Editor’s note: This post is written by Paul Blowers, a chemical and environmental engineering professor at the University of Arizona, who is featured in the module, Using Active Learning Techniques in Large Classes. The first time I turned to active learning in my chemical engineering class was nearly 19 years ago. After two years of […]
Student-Centered Education, Self-Evaluation
An educator calls for a new, student-centered education model, and a professor’s experiment involving students in their own grading process yields surprising results. News and insights delivered to your inbox every week: The Q Newsletter. Making the Grade In response to a question about making grading collaborative, Cate Denial decided to craft a process that […]
Measuring the Impact of Faculty Development on Student Achievement
The best way to advance and recognize the rightful place of faculty in student success efforts is to invest in and demonstrate the impact of evidence-based instruction on student achievement. So argues the American Council on Education (ACE), with whom ACUE collaborates, in a new white paper released this week. The report explores the benefits […]
STEM Active Learning Techniques With U of A’s Paul Blowers
During class, who’s doing most of the work—you or your students? If it’s you, then you may be falling into an all-too-common teaching trap, informed by the way many of us were taught. It’s key to remember the adage “the person doing the work is doing the learning.” ACUE fields many questions about active learning, […]
