Georgetown University launches a new Master of Arts in Learning and Design program in Fall 2017. Focusing on instructional design, technology innovation, learning analytics and higher education leadership, the program is poised to train the next generation of leaders, who will drive learning forward. The program aims to equip students not only with key concepts…
Published in The Chronicle of Higher Education Providing more faculty development opportunities for faculty members to think, talk, and write could help to improve faculty productivity and career burnout.
Published in Times Higher Education Lack of self-efficacy plays a significant role in writing anxiety amongst graduate students, and this writing anxiety can often prevent students from completing their graduate degree.
Published in Nature Partner Journals – Science of Learning Abstract: The purpose of this article is to explore a model of learning that proposes that various learning strategies are powerful at certain stages in the learning cycle.
(Back, Left to Right: Elizabeth Roth-Johnson, Jordan Moberg Parker, Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, Christopher Lee; Front, Left to Right: Shanna Shaked (and Quin), Jessica Gregg, Erin Sanders, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Gaston Pfluegl, Rachel Kennison; In attendance but not pictured: Frank Laski, Kristin McCully and Nadia Sellami) On January 14-15, 2017 a group of UCLA faculty and staff…
Published in the Association for Psychological Science Abstract: Laptop computers are widely prevalent in university classrooms. Although laptops are a valuable tool, they offer access to a distracting temptation: the Internet. In the study reported here, the authors assessed the relationship between classroom performance and actual Internet usage for academic and nonacademic purposes.
This new book summarizes evidence-based teaching practices for STEM classrooms that improve student learning across diverse populations. (CBE- Life Sciences Education)
In this essay, authors use a backward-design approach to inform life science graduate students of postdoctoral opportunities in BER. READ MORE
Academic research plays an important role in uncovering bias and helping to shape a more equal society. But academia also struggles to adequately confront persistent and entrenched gender bias in its own corridors. Here Danica Savonick and Cathy N. Davidson have aggregated and summarised over twenty research articles on gender bias in academe, a crucial resource…
Catherine Good has experienced stereotype threat herself, although she didn’t know it at the time. She started her academic career in pure math, expecting to get a Ph.D. But somewhere along the way she started to feel like it just wasn’t for her, even though she was doing well in all her classes. Thinking that…