Flipped learning: Advice for the untenured
If you’re an untenured faculty member and interested in trying flipped learning, should you wait? Or should you go for it? I argue the latter, but with cauti...
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On eliminating lectures, a reality-check: Part 3
Part 3 of my response to an article in the July 14 Atlantic about the ‘elimination’ of lecture. This time we tackle the main point of the article about train...
On eliminating lectures, a reality-check: Part 2
Part 2 of my response to an article in the July 14 Atlantic about the ‘elimination’ of lecture. Here we take a look at the specious reasoning about time and ...
On eliminating lectures, a reality-check: Part 1
An article in the July 14 Atlantic decries the ‘elimination’ of lecture. This is part 1 of a point-by-point rebuttal of that article.
Why do we use learning objectives? An analogy.
Are learning objectives really necessary for a lesson? Don’t they just confine learning and remove the opportunity to explore? I answer a definitive ‘yes and...