The instructor’s work of facilitating students’ learning never ends. In order to facilitate learning, one of the fundamental principles instructors employ is understanding students’ prior knowledge. It is well known that students build on what they already know and have come to understand through formal and informal experiences. People develop attitudes and beliefs as they
Tag: Learning
Students’ Motivation and Learning
Each semester instructors spend many hours preparing their courses with the expectation or hope that students will experience significant learning outcomes in their classes. The sad fact is that while instructors spend countless hours and energy developing syllabi, formulating learning outcomes, selecting learning activities, building assessments and constructing feedback strategies, etc., some students remain unconcerned
Fed up with multi-tasking students?
On Tuesday, CTLT program staff attended a Student Engagement Techniques Faculty Workshop by Elizabeth Barkley along with 20+ ISU faculty members. One of the comments that repeatedly came up in the workshop was that students nowadays are so distracted by their electronic gadgets and multitasking whenever they can that they are not paying attention in
Using Technology to Improve Student Learning
Research indicates that technology can be used to improve teaching and learning if it is used in a way consistent with the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. According to these principles good practice should encourage student and faculty contact, develop cooperation among students, use active learning techniques, ensure prompt feedback to students,
