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 Quick Reads
Below you will find a collection of quick reads on big issues in higher education, subdivided by topic. The idea is to satiate or stimulate your curiosity about topics and trends in faculty development, higher education, and teaching and learning. All are jargon-free, yet informative. Some even have immediate take-aways and applications to your classes and career. So scroll through each category and enjoy!
Topics
- 01-07-2021 Why Students Should Write in All Subjects: Writing improves learning by consolidating information in long-term memory. Edutopia
- 08-19-2020 Asynchronous vs. Synchronous: How to Design for Each Type of Learning CatlinTucker
- 06-11-2020 Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms Vanderbilt University
- 04-13-2020 The Neuroscience Behind Productive Struggle Edutopia
- 03-12-2020 Completing a Face-To-Face Course Online Following A Campus Mandate The Scholarly Teacher
- 01-03-2020 Education When Information Is Free Inside Higher Ed
- 01-01-2020 Teaching Research in the First-Year Writing Classroom in the U.S. Inside Higher Ed
- 11-14-2019 Understanding Adoption of New Teaching Strategies through a Behavioral Change Model The Scholarly Teacher
- 09-09-2019 The Dangers of Fluent Lectures: A study says smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking they've learned more than they actually have -- potentially at the expense of active learning. Inside Higher Ed
- 09-05-2019 Teachers Still Believe in 'Learning Styles' and Other Myths About Cognition Education Week
- 09-04-2019 Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom PNAS
- 05-01-2019 Learner-Centered Teaching: 10 Ideas for Getting Started Faculty Focus
- 04-02-2019 How a Math Class Sparked Students' Engagement in Their Community The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 12-12-2018 Technology in the Classroom: What the Research Tells Us Inside Higher Ed
- 10-04-2018 An Engineering Professor Asked His Colleagues to Help Him Analyze His Teaching. Here’s What He Learned. The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 09-12-2018 How to Create a Syllabus The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 08-07-2018 What Students Want Colleges to Know About How They Learn EdSurge
- 04-11-2018 The Myth of 'Learning Styles': A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked. The Atlantic
- 02-22-2018 Which Should Come First: Problem-Solving or Instruction? The Learning Scientists
- 2018 Data In Action Series: Student Engagement as a Political Catalyst Campus Labs: Data Driven Innovation
- 2018 Civic engagement goes beyond the midterm elections (login or registration required) Times Higher Education
- 10-15-2017 A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens Business Insider
- 10-10-2017 Five Benefits of Lecture Capture TechSmith Blog
- 07-14-2017 Teaching and Learning: A Two-Way Street Campus Intelligence: Reimaging Data in Higher Ed
- 05-17-2017 Do Your Students Learn by Rote? Or Can They Recognize Patterns? The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 03-12-2017 No evidence to back idea of learning styles The Guardian
- 02-10-2017 Digital Storytelling at TTU Springborgphoto
- 11-30-2016 A Nobel prize-winning physicist identified three simple steps to mastering any subject Quartz
- 12-14-2015 Ending The Semester with Reflection Notre Dame Learning
- 04-16-2015 Writing effectively means shaping your words in light of whom you are writing to and why Inside Higher Ed
- 04-09-2015 Improve learning by thinking about learning by Todd Zakrajsek (Video) YouTube
- 07-16-2014 Can Creativity Be Learned? The Atlantic
- 2014 How Much Mightier Is the Pen than the Keyboard for Note-Taking? Springer Link
- Mar 2012 Hard-to-Read Fonts Promote Better Recall Harvard Business Review
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