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Below is a compilation of the Teaching Academy’s "Food for Thought" emails. These are periodically sent out to members by Steve Hines and others.

Date
Topic
July 16, 2015
Part 2: Why Change Our Approach to Teaching? - Why we are teaching science wrong, and how to make it right
July 15, 2015
Why Change Our Approach to Teaching?
Dec 16, 2014
ETHICS instruction
Oct 6, 2014
Seven Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Multiple
Sept. 18, 2014
Part 2: Why Change Our Approach to Teaching? - Why we are teaching science wrong, and how to make it right
Aug 28, 2014
Free professional development webinars for educators- ASM Summer M(icro)OOC Series
Aug. 20, 2014
Teaching the students we HAVE
Aug 19, 2014
Article: A Review of Student Evaluation of Teaching: Applications to Veterinary Medical Education
Aug 18, 2014
Article: Student Ratings of Teaching
Aug 8, 2014
Is grading useful
May 12, 2014
Flipped Classrooms - Old or New?
May 7, 2014
Teaching Encounter Provides an Up-Close Look at Learning Something New
March 9, 2014
Writing good exams
Feb 14, 2014
Taking care of your INSTRUCTIONAL HEALTH
Jan 10, 2014
What the heck is METACOGNITION ? And why should I care?
Dec 20, 2013
Characteristics of Great Teachers
Nov 20, 2013
Why don’t students remember what they’ve learned?
Nov 1, 2013
How to best use clickers
Oct. 28, 2013
Keeping Introverts in Mind in Your Active Learning Classroom
Aug 21, 2013
What Teachers Make
Aug 13, 2013
Superficial versus deep knowledge
July 8, 2013
Academic Rigor
June 19, 2013
Knowledge vs. Process
May 29, 2013
Student Evaluations of Teaching
May 10, 2013
The Innovative Instructor - Johns Hopkins University Publication
May 7, 2013
The use of Camtasia video software to FLIP the classroom
April 15, 2013
Faculty Focus: Cellphones in Classrooms
February 25, 2013
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Education
February 6, 2013
Defining Teaching Effectiveness
February 4, 2013
NBME Online Items - Writing Test Questions Tutorial
January 12, 2013
Article: Students Think They can Multitask
December 13, 2012
Teaching and Learning Grants
December 13, 2012
Composing the New Classroom: Teaching and Learning Remix Workshop schedule
December 12, 2012
New Issue of JMBE Available
November 21, 2012
Regional Teaching Academy Update
November 19, 2012
Deep Learning vs. Surface Learning
October 30, 2012
WSU Classroom Upgrades/Tegrity Lecture Capture
October 22, 2012
Even More on the Flipped Classroom
October 19, 2012
More on the Flipped Classroom
October 17, 2012
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
September 26, 2012
Science in the Classroom - a Resource via Science Magazine
August 16, 2012
Using Clickers to Maximize and Measure Student Learning
June 29, 2012
Curricular themes at innovative medical schools
June 14, 2012
Academic Rigor - Part 2
June 13, 2012
Academic Rigor: Lessons from Room 10
June 3, 2012
Tips for documenting teaching on your CV and annual report
May 4, 2012
Reclaiming the classroom withold-fashioned teaching
April 26, 2012
Should Effort Count? Students CertainlyThink So
April 2, 2012
What's Wrong with Teaching Awards
March 28, 2012
Essay on Student Evaluations in CHE
February 27, 2012
Should Professors Use Facebook toCommunicate with Students?
January 3, 2012
Let's Improve Learning
December 19, 2011
Teaching and Research on Human Memory
October 26, 2011
Binge and purge?
August 19, 2011
 A Contradiction in Teaching  (Are you hard or easy?)
August 11, 2011
Flipping the classroom
August 8, 2011
Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade(new book)
June 16, 2011
More on Learning Styles
June 2, 2011
The effects of adding structure andactive learning techniques
May 16, 2011
Making Exams More about Learning
May 5, 2011
Student Entitlement
April 28, 2011
Learning: 5 key principles
April 21, 2011
Revisiting the Purpose of PowerPoint
April 21, 2011
How We Learn: Come on, I thought I knew that!
January 21, 2011
To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test -NY Times Article
January 4, 2011
Challenging the Notion of Learning Styles
December 27, 2010
A Quest to Explain What Grades Really Mean

 

Links:

  • Faculty Focus is a free eNewsletter & website which includes articles and other useful information about higher education teaching strategies for both face-to-face and distance/online learning environments.
  • The Ted website: TED’s mission: Spreading ideas. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.


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