by Ashley Dickson | Oct 22, 2022 | Learning Series
“For feedback to have maximum effect, students have to be expected to use it to improve their work and, in many cases, taught how to do so.” –Saphier et al (2008) Feedback is an essential part of teaching and learning, and we’re all familiar with the...
by John Furr | Aug 23, 2022 | Academic Technologies, Delivering Courses, Designing Courses, Learning Series, Professional Development, Summer Institute
Summer Institute Session 2: Worked Examples “A worked example is a step-by-step demonstration of how to perform a task or how to solve a problem” (Clark, Nguyen, Sweller, 2006, p. 190). In the second session of the inaugural day for Summer Institute...
by Ashley Dickson | Aug 19, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Day 3 Session 1: Multiple Exposures “Forgetting is a feature, not a bug.” – Popov, Marevic, Rummel, & Reder, 2019 3 Strategies for Helping Students Remember What They Learn We often think of forgetting as a failure in memory, but...
by Tim Godcharles | Aug 7, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Day 3 Session 2: Feedback “Feedback is the formal and explicit comments that someone, usually a teacher, provides to students about their academic work.” David Nicol (2021) The Feedback session for Summer Institute 2022, focused on the...
by Nancy Munce | Jun 15, 2022 | Summer Institute
Summer Institute Session 1: Explicit Teaching Explicit Teaching is “Instruction that does not leave anything to chance and does not make assumptions about skills and knowledge that children will acquire on their own.” -Torgesen, 2004 In the kick-off...
