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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)

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

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.

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

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

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...

Creativity Narratives Among College Students: Sociability and Everyday Creativity

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

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

Better Being Wrong (Sometimes): Classroom Assessment that Enhances Student Learning and Motivation

Check out McMillan and Moore’s (2020) article on “how making mistakes and learning errors are essential to achievement, as well as the development of positive dispositions such as persistence, resilience, and risk-taking”

Active Learning (Bok Center)

Check out the Bok Center’s guides and strategies for active learning, including approaching problems in STEM and leading discussions.

Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics

Read more about how active learning increases student performance in the STEM field in Freeman et al.’s famous 2014 study.

Teaching for Understanding

Bottino and his team’s practices also mirror what Harvard’s Project Zero termed a teaching for understanding framework, which locates topics that students are passionate about and creates goals, experiences, and assessments around them.

Research: Exploring Play/Playfulness and Learning in the Adult and Higher Education Classroom

This study shows that play and playfulness can increase engagement, retention and understanding in university courses by encouraging risk-taking and creating a safe learning environment.