Responding to Student Feedback: An Opportunity to Make Our Teaching Visible October 11, 2017
The most important part of collecting student feedback is responding to that feedback.
Teaching after Hurricane Harvey September 4, 2017
As Rice prepares for classes to resume tomorrow, the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Student Wellbeing have collaborated to produce the following guide to working with students in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
The Ghost of Mr. Keating June 12, 2017
Inspiration is nice, but it is not the goal of education. We should be striving to help our students learn instead.
A New Taxonomy of Learning Goals May 15, 2017
Helping faculty think through what they value in the context of their courses is my favorite part of course design. But I have to confess that the traditional taxonomies I use when doing so have never made much conceptual sense to me. So after many years of introducing these categories with the caveat that we shouldn't think too hard about them, I finally decided to create my own. I didn't think the world needed yet another taxonomy of learning goals, but I thought I would do a better job talking with faculty if I could present the alternatives in my own vernacular. And it turns out they liked it enough to insist that I share.
#ActiveLearningDay -- October 25, 2016 October 28, 2016
The active learning vs. lecture debate creates a false binary. We can do both!