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A hand holding a ball of pink cotton candy against a clear sky background.
A hand holding a ball of pink cotton candy against a clear sky background.

Taking the Cotton Candy Out of Your Learning Objectives

July 20, 2026

Rethinking your learning outcomes to build them around transferable skills is the first step toward better, more nutritious course design.

A spare, stick-figure like illustration of a male teacher pointing to slides with a bar graph.
A spare, stick-figure like illustration of a male teacher pointing to slides with a bar graph.

Your PowerPoints Probably Suck

October 16, 2024

But you can easily improve them, writes Zachary Nowak, who offers 10 suggestions for how to do that.

Student sits at desk taking notes from a book, computer open by her side
Student sits at desk taking notes from a book, computer open by her side

Staged Assignments & Long-Ass Prompts

January 26, 2024

After years of trying to convince students it was in their best interest to start their research papers early, Zachary Nowak simply required them to.