by Victoria Machado In the summer of 2020, as we all entered varying levels of quarantine, I embarked on a
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Proceedings from the Holt Virtual Symposium on Teaching & Learning
Friday, January 15, 2021 Opening Plenary: Adult Learners: The New Majority Plenary Presentation:“Holt’s Adult Student: The New Majority” by Rob
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Planning Our Distinctive Learning Experiences
by Nancy Chick The ACE Framework provided by Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Lab gives us a path
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Pedagogies of Small Residential Liberal Arts College
by Nancy Chick I’m fascinated by pedagogy. Not so much the practices and skills that make up teaching, but more
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Understanding Today’s Students
Originally, I set out to write a few paragraphs in an email responding to colleagues’ comments about struggling to understand
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Teaching in the Eye of a Hurricane
New & Improved,with Extra Ideas Shared by Colleagues!(Scroll down to Addenda.) As I write this post on the fourth day
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Politics & Religion in the Classroom: Reframing the Narrative
We’ve all heard the narratives that fill impressions of the halls of higher education with stories of professors trying to
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On ‘Learning Styles,’ Again–or Oh Dear, What’s This On My Shoe?
One of the many things we now know from the last few decades of research on how people learn is
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It’s About Time
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” –T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “…if
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Teaching in Times of Polarization
We are in a heightened moment of he said/she said, us/them, pro/con, recognize/erase, confirm/reject, right/wrong, and other emotionally charged dualisms,
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