Resources

An excerpt from “Improving The Effectiveness Of Your Lectures,“ by William L. Heward, outlining an approach to enhancing the effectiveness of student learning during lectures – through instructor-prepared handouts providing students with background information and cues to write key facts, concepts, and/or relationships during the lecture.

Provides the results of 15 focus groups of students of color on student perceptions of faculty. Gives suggestions for addressing student concerns: Broaden course content; “manage” diversity; “manage” selves; and deal with institutional context surrounding the classroom

Argues that online collaboration among students does not need to follow the same forms as traditional interaction in face-to-face classrooms. Reviews pioneering and imaginative ways of helping students learn with one another in virtual space – ways that multiply the advantages of extended access with the strengths of enriched learning environments.

A short provocative argument that the issue of internet plagiarism helpfully challenges entrenched but problematic practices of the academy: the term paper, institutional structures around grades, and the tacit assumption that knowledge is stored information.