Are your students’ learning styles compatible with your teaching style? “To teach is to engage students in learning.” Quote, from Education for Judgment by Christensen et al, [1]. For engineering faculty, the real challenge is not covering the material, but making sure students understand the material. It’s important to know that while presenting your content to […]
Continue reading →By definition, self-efficacy is the belief in one’s own ability to successfully accomplish something (Bandura, 1994). Working with students everyday – critiquing their work, grading their performance, giving professional feedback – how do these everyday events support our students’ self-efficacy? Now, I’m not suggesting that as instructors we swing the pendulum the other way and […]
Continue reading →Most faculty use PowerPoint when they teach. But wouldn’t you like to create engaging PowerPoint slides? Create an engaged learning environment where every student can participate and have a voice? Using Top Hat Classroom allows instructors to sync their lectures slides with students’ devices so they can follow along in real-time. Instructors can build in […]
Continue reading →The challenges for the 21st century student are not all that different. What’s been noticed is the need for future students to be able to embrace professional ethics and social responsibly, be creative and innovative and write and communicate well. Students need to learn more about how to contribute to society. Today students need to […]
Continue reading →The 21st century replacement for pen and paper is finely here – the tablet. University are developing software and teaching methods that take advantage of the tablet PC’s unique capabilities. Tablets in teaching is not new. It’s caught on in the medical professions where doctors use them to take notes and update patient charts. But […]
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