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From own experience as a lecturer and sitting in student-staff-forum meetings where students report what is going well and what needs to be improved, I know that there is one topic that comes to haunt us in every meeting: Provision of lecture slides before the lecture…
Last week, I wrote a blog post that ended with a data prediction cliffhanger. I asked readers to predict how question difficulty order on a test might affect students’ evaluations of their own performance on that test.
If we want to improve student learning, we also need to worry about students' attunement with their own memory performance. That is, if students can't gauge how well they did on a test, they're going to have more trouble preparing adequately for the next one.
With advances in technology, the use of online and hybrid (partially online and partially in person) classes has increased. There seems to be a lot of excitement around different course formats that are available, with some institutions even pushing for more and more …
This week I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce myself to the Learning Scientist community by answering some questions.
I have recently founded the new Teaching Innovation and Learning Enhancement (TILE) at the University of Dundee. It’s a network that aims at bringing people from different disciplines and sectors together to discuss issues in education and ways to overcome them using research findings. TILE is currently run as an external speaker series…
