Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
You’d Like PowerPoint If You Only Used It Right
It’s a poor workman who blames his tools, argue two proponents of the ‘proper’ use of PowerPoint in the classroom. And here they offer tips on how to use the dread Microsoft product well.
Death to PowerPoint (And Why It Will Live)
If universities were interested in measuring learning, argues Paul Ralph, it’s likely the bulb in the PowerPoint projector would dim a bit.
It’s Time to Kill PowerPoint (in the Classroom)
Take away PowerPoint, and what do professors have left? Students! As it should be, argues Bent Meier Sørensen.
Focusing on Average Treatment Impacts May Underestimate Program Impacts
When impacts vary from one subgroup to another, then focusing on average treatment effects may underestimate the impacts, according to a recent article by Bradford Chaney.
Will SPOCs Live Long and Prosper?
We’re familiar with MOOCs — massive online courses. But what’s happened to the smaller — and more human-sized — online courses of yore?
How to Use Screencasting to Improve Students’ Research Methods
If you could make a movie of sorts as you talked over a presentation being made on your computer screen — not […]
What Happens When Lectures Are Ranked?
What does happen happens when lecturers are ranked? Daniel Nehring offers some thoughts on the uses and misuses of student evaluations
Don’t Let A Snob Story Become a Sob Story
There are a number of species of snobbery that show up on campus and it’s useful to develop skills for counting or even reversing its malign influence. Step one: learn to laugh.
