Teaching

Offering options helps make them more affirming and meaningful, which ultimately increases student learning, writes Christine Harrington.

Patricia Taylor has found using AI takes more time and creates more problems than not if instructors want students to get meaningful feedback on their work.

Many academics criticize traditional lectures as being too passive and old-fashioned, but they actually help enhance pedagogical diversity, writes Xinqiang Li.

As learning management systems dominate, and students juggle competing priorities, Susan D. Blum asks, where is the joy, the adventure, the meaning?

The first day of class sets the tone for the entire semester, writes David R. Bowne, who has developed an unusual yet successful way to do so—with M&Ms.

The need for students to consider the touch points between big moral questions and today’s political and financial issues is more pressing than ever, write Peter Boumgarden and Abram Van Engen.

Jeremy T. Murphy outlines five ways to encourage them to shift their focus from the instructor to one another in whole class discussions.

As students reveal upsetting personal information to us, we must help them transform it in ways that become meaningful, writes Deborah J. Cohan.