Teaching Ourselves to Teach
College and university faculty members should work with mentors, coaches and colleagues to continually reflect on their own practice of teaching, write Kenneth Sharpe and Elizabeth Bolton.
College and university faculty members should work with mentors, coaches and colleagues to continually reflect on their own practice of teaching, write Kenneth Sharpe and Elizabeth Bolton.
Published in UCLA Newsroom The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA online master’s degree program has been named the nation’s best by U.S. News and World […]
Published in the December 2015 Issue of Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education This study offers some evidence of the benefits of using open clicker questions (not revealing the multiple […]
NSF Video Collection As we begin 2016, highlighted here is a showcase of 3-minute videos with online discussion that illustrate innovative work to improve science, math, engineering, and computer science […]
Open Educational Research (OER) PhET simulations are open educational resources available for faculty to use. This program founded by Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has grown over […]
November Issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education Critiques of course evaluations came this year from Carl E. Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School […]
August Issue of Science Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate students are often encouraged to maximize their engagement with supervised research and minimize teaching obligations. However, the process of […]
Published by Purdue University Press The book builds on the authors’ national reputations at the forefront of transformative undergraduate education research, and provides an overview of the context and challenges […]
Neil Garg, professor and vice chair for education in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry, has been selected as the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching California Professor of the […]
The definition of what is considered “conceptual understanding” may differ from educator to educator. In this study, the authors have amassed the definitions from thousands of instructors to identify a consensus articulation of what conceptual understanding is.