… Many of my white colleagues have expressed their shock and dismay at the current state of our country. “Why does this keep happening? What can we do?” one colleague asked in an email to faculty and staff. This is my response to my colleague.
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Student Ability, Self-Regulated Spaced Practice, and Performance In Online Learning
A recently published study by Carvalho, Sana, and Yan (1) contributes to the evidence base supporting spaced practice by approaching the question about the benefits of spaced practice differently: They recorded the authentic study behavior of students enrolled in an online course…
A Statistics Primer for the Overwhelmed Educator
I’ve spent the last ten years teaching behavioral science statistics, so I thought it might be worthwhile to write up a short description of some common statistical terms that appear in psychology papers to help overwhelmed educators who might want to interpret results but don’t have time to take a course in stats!
Six Strategies for Effective Distance Learning: A Summary for Teachers
Currently, in 2020, most of us are engaging in some sort of distance learning, and planning to do so in the near future. So, in the most recent podcast, Episode 47, I talked about emergency distance instruction and a few ways that the six strategies could be implemented in distance courses. For today’s blog, …
Time Management: What is it, who has it, and can you improve it?
In today’s post I want to talk about another challenge that results from having our daily routines and work/study environments upended: time management. Even under ideal circumstances, time management can be challenging…
Book Review: How Learning Happens (Kirschner & Hendrick)
A few weeks ago, Paul Kirschner contacted us and said that he co-wrote a new book with Carl Hendrick and wondered whether we would be interested in reviewing it in form of a blog post. So, here I am now, sitting in my living room: laptop on my lap, book by my side, and ready to do this…