Teaching

Some professors provide students with barrier-free access to course information and materials, even when doing so requires extra work and leaves them feeling vulnerable.

A new study evaluates how six simple interventions, including quizzing students on academic honesty, appear to have reduced cheating in a computer science course.

Professors who incorporate Wikipedia-editing assignments into coursework enhance their students’ digital literacy skills while broadening their own roles—from educating college students to educating society.

When it was not an option for the desperate or lazy to attempt in the dark, we were forced to confront together larger questions about the purpose of education, writes Joel Heng Hartse.

Instructors may notice the phenomenon of strange synonyms appearing in student papers, but they aren’t always aware of the tools used to produce those papers, writes Elizabeth Steere.

As we all relearn the art of conversation, integrating the concept of scaffolding can help students have meaningful conversations, Laurie L. Patton writes.