A Discussion of “A Randomized Assessment of Online Learning” I teach at a small, private college which traditionally has offered a low teacher-student ratio as one of our main amenities. It’s why I teach there because teaching is my favorite part of being a professor. Then the pandemic struck this…
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Active Learning: Myth or Reality?
A Discussion of “How Often Does Active Learning Actually Occur?” “Chalk and Talk.” “Sage on the Stage.” AKA, lecturing — the most common technique used in teaching economics in higher education today. Why? Because it is effective? Probably more because it is traditional. It is the method most current professors had in school….
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Remote Testing Without Cheating
Exploring a Better Way to Test During the Shut Down Halfway through the spring semester, living for Spring Break when I will get caught up on that ever-growing to do list, I certainly could not have predicted how much time I was about to have at home! Spring Break passed normally…
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Learning From Remote Learning
What the Shift to Remote Learning Can Teach Us About Teaching Who could have predicted this end to the Spring 2020 semester? If your future-self had shown up on February 1 to warn you, would you have believed them? Note: we shifted our residential classes to remote learning, not to online…