Latest about Higher Ed
Teaching Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
As Benicio del Toro's Frankenstein hits theaters, it's a great time to explore the story behind the story.
It’s Counterintuitive But Pretesting Consistently Works, Says Research
Research and tips for implementing pretesting in the classroom from Steven C. Pan, director of the Learning Sciences Laboratory at the National University of Singapore
AI Isn’t Yet a Huge Help to Writing Students, Says Director of Harvard’s Writing Center
Jane Rosenzweig sees potential for AI in the future but is critical of many of its current classroom applications.
Holy Sheets! Minds-on Interactive Spreadsheet Adventures
Free interactive STEM spreadsheets can get your students started in both simple and complex computations.
Videos Can Be More Effective Than In-Person Learning
Learning by videos outperformed in-person lectures in an analysis of more than 105 studies looking at college students.
HOTS for Teachers: Best Free Resources For Higher-Order Thinking Skills
Teach higher-order thinking skills with these top free resources.
Best Free Virtual Labs
These best virtual lab sites and apps are all free, highly engaging, and informative—and most don’t require registration.
A Professor Encouraged Students to Use ChatGPT. OpenAI Asked Her What She Learned
Dr. Francine Berman permitted her students at UMass to use ChatGPT to help them write. Despite limitations, she found there were ways it could help edit student work.
