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Encore: What a Forgotten Instructional Fad From the ‘70s Reveals About Teaching
In the 1960s and '70s, an experimental form of teaching made a big splash at colleges. It was called PSI, or the Personalized System of Instruction. …
5 years, 2 months ago
There Is No Average Student. So How Should Educators Measure Learning?
What if the way we think about testing and how we measure students is broken? That’s the argument made by our guest today, Todd Rose, author of the b…
5 years, 2 months ago
How Shakespeare Can Help Us Rethink Education
What is the purpose of education? It's a question that William Shakespeare raises in his comedy "Love's Labour's Lost. And the playwright's own train…
5 years, 3 months ago
More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat During the Pandemic. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It?
Over the past year the pandemic has dramatically altered college teaching, and one side-effect seems to be a rise in exam cheating. In some cases, st…
5 years, 3 months ago
A Social-Emotional Learning Expert Explains Why ‘Unity’ Is So Elusive
In his Inaugural Address, Joe Biden spoke at length about unity, calling on Americans to “listen to one another, see one another, hear one another an…
5 years, 3 months ago
Is It Still Teaching When the Professor Is Dead?
An online course at Concordia University is being taught by a legend of Canadian art -- well, by video lectures he recorded years ago. But a student …
5 years, 3 months ago
How the Race Between Vaccinations and COVID Variants Affects School Reopening
With COVID-19 vaccinations rolling out across the country, there's hope that more schools in the U.S. will soon go back to in-person learning. But th…
5 years, 4 months ago
Teachers Are Going Viral on TikTok. Is That a Good Thing?
Teachers are becoming stars these days on TikTok, that social media platform for sharing short videos. Some of them say the platform serves as a kind…
5 years, 4 months ago
Lessons from Students and Professors Who Podcasted Their Campus Lives During the Fall Semester
Last semester was historic: the first full term under the shadow of COVID-19, and nobody really knew what to expect or how well various teaching adap…
5 years, 4 months ago
Are Colleges Partly to Blame for the Riot at the Capitol?
This week we talk with a history professor who thinks that not only can colleges do more to encourage civic education that could prevent future crise…
5 years, 4 months ago