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Interactive Open Educational Resources: A Guide to Finding, Choosing, and Using What’s Out There to Transform College Teaching by John D. Shank (review)

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In his book, John D. Shank explores the world of interactive open educational resources (OERs) by examining several of the most popular and highest quality digital repositories and library websites in depth in order to guide his audience towards best...

Simulations and games: Use and barriers in higher education

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This article explores the use of simulations and games in tertiary education. It examines the extent to which academics use different simulation-based teaching approaches and how they perceive the barriers to adopting such techniques.

How reasoning, judgment, and decision making are colored by gist-based intuition: A fuzzy-trace theory approach.

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Corbin, J. C., Reyna, V. F., Weldon, R. B., & Brainerd, C. J. (2015). “How reasoning, judgment, and decision making are colored by gist-based intuition: A fuzzy-trace theory approach.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(4), 344–355...

Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom

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To learn more about active learning and how to overcome student resistance to peer instruction, check out Louis Deslauriers, et al. (2019) article on the value of active learning and how to combat the challenges: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

The relative benefits of learning by teaching and teaching expectancy

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Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer (2013) found that students who prepare to teach a concept outperform those who just study the material, and those who actually teach the lesson develop a deeper and more persistent understanding of the material as...

Leveraging asymmetry in student's prior knowledge through peer learning exercises

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Salil Vadhan, Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Lead PI on Harvard’s Privacy Tools Project, teaches COMPSCI 120: Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations, a new introductory course in theoretical computer science...

Developing cultural and linguistic competencies through music

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Taiwo Ehineni, Preceptor of African Languages, emphasizes the importance of “cultural frames” in language learning, or the ecologies in which the language is developed and used.

Creativity Narratives Among College Students: Sociability and Everyday Creativity

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Read this article about how college students often think of creative expression as part of their everyday student lives.

Supportive Classroom Environments For Creativity in Higher Education

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Read this foundational article from Cole et al. on the conditions necessary for fostering creativity in college classrooms.

Exploring creativity in the (virtual) classroom

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David Atherton, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, taught Creativity, a general education course which explores the nature of creativity and the role it plays in our lives, remotely in spring 2021. The course was originally...