August 6, 2020 What would happen if you stopped giving participation grades? Have you ever wondered what would happen if you stopped giving students participation grades? Professor Berkeley Kaite...>
April 30, 2019 Moving Classroom Participation Beyond “Please Raise Your Hand” We remember 10% of what we read, 30% of what we see, and 90% of what...>
August 19, 2015 Breaking the ice – 5 tips for getting your discussions started in myCourses Classes start in just over two weeks, so it’s the perfect time to start getting your...>
March 5, 2015 From the campus to MOOC: Reflections of a student assistant McGillX offered its first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the edX platform in January 2014...>
November 6, 2014 Bringing social media into myCourses: Embedded Twitter feeds At Teaching and Learning Services, I work as a Learning Technology Consultant and help instructors with...>
May 15, 2014 Instructors: Stop putting your PowerPoint slides on-line I tire of the belly-aching about how students don’t show up to lectures anymore (the latest...>
May 1, 2014 Information Communication Technologies (ICTs): Friend or foe? I recently finished a book called Alone Together by Sherry Turkle (2011), a professor at MIT....>
November 25, 2013 Turning class participation into short written assignments In the entry from the Teaching Professor Blog pasted below, Maryellen Weimer, PhD, suggests that instructors...>
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