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Learning and Teaching

 

On this page, you will find ideas on learning and teaching. Our hope is that this will eventually become a comprehensive and useful resource for faculty members.

The information found here the pages will be based on our own personal experiences, research into the topic, and sometimes simply our idiosyncratic opinions. At other times, you will be linked to other sites that we have found to be useful.

Teaching methods

You can find ideas on how to improve the two most common modes of teaching - the lecture and the seminar/discussion.

Assessments

You can find ideas on how to improve and vary your assessments, and how to give useful feedback to your students more efficiently.

Getting feedback from students

Describes how to get useful feedback from your students.

Dealing with controversy

What are the best ways to deal with controversies in the classroom?

General classroom issues

Deals with broad issues like identifying the principles on which good teaching is based, coupled with practical tips for teaching, how to help students become more responsible for their own learning, and how to deal with plagiarism.

Cooperative learning

Has useful links to resources for the successful implementation of cooperative learning.

Experiential learning, the learning cycle, and learning styles

The learning cycle is a powerful way of conceptualizing and understanding experiential learning, how people learn, and how to develop teaching strategies that build on that knowledge.

Using technology in teaching

Technology can be very helpful in teaching if used judiciously. This page gives suggestions on how to do it.