I want to take a brief time to link to two of Mark Guzdial's recent posts. Both including an important theme in teaching. Students learn best by doing not hearing. Oddly students commonly repeat this misconception. If I structure our class time to place them as the ones doing something, rather than me "teaching" by speaking, the appraisal can be that I did not teach. They may not dispute that they learned, but I failed to teach them.
Students learn when they do, not just hear. And Learning in MOOCs does not take this requirement into account.
I have to regularly review these points. So much so that I was able to give them to a group of reporters last week (part of new faculty orientation, but still).
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