Remote Small Group Interaction

As we prepare to social distantify our teaching I’m adapting something I use a lot in the “active” classroom to the online context. I describe

Wanted: Grading Analytics (about me)

I don’t like grading. And when I have a large enrollment course, the tedium of it can drive me round the bend. To get through

Feeling Learning

While using chopsticks at lunch today I found myself musing about how to train a robot to do the same. One could, of course, attempt

Assessing Assessment?

The appalling legacy of “assessment” goes on and on and on. This “frank discussion” at a recent WASC conference is a classic bit of “too

Pitch & Catch: Maximizing Peer Critique and Feedback

In an entrepreneurship course a colleague of mine used to have a “pitch and catch” session in which one team would pitch their idea and

To Lecture or Not to Lecture

I still remember things said in some lectures that I heard in the late 1970s, the 80s and the early 90s. In some cases I