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Newsletter Archive
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Sept. 17, 2020A new required course for first-year students is part of Barnard College’s effort to make this virtual semester a meaningful one.
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Sept. 10, 2020A new study finds that innovative instructors prefer to talk to like-minded people, suggesting that colleges need to think strategically if they want effective teaching strategies to spread across campus.
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Sept. 3, 2020Professors can’t control the stress students face outside of class. But they can avoid adding to it unnecessarily.
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Aug. 27, 2020Professors are shifting away from high-stakes tests and coming up with innovative ways for students to demonstrate what they’ve learned.
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Aug. 20, 2020Online courses will be better this fall, one expert says, but none of the other challenges students face have gone away.
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Aug. 13, 2020A professor’s experiment convinced him that asking students to make their own content worked better than “making cool stuff” for them.
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Aug. 6, 2020An online-teaching expert gives advice on challenges around limited technology and active learning in large-enrollment courses.
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July 30, 2020Teaching experts answer your questions on how to deal with the challenges of teaching some students in person and the rest remotely.
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July 23, 2020A sociologist who teaches courses on race shares strategies for handling pushback and racist comments in class.
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July 16, 2020How an approach meant to level the playing field for students with weaker high-school preparation could help classmates stay connected during the pandemic.