Over the years, I’ve refined rubrics with the intent that students can evaluate their own mastery of an assignment. In some courses, students generate their own rubrics. During class sessions, students practice applying the rubrics, which gives them insight into how to create assignments that meet the goals. I still…
I went back to school. This seems somewhat odd at first, given that I’ve been in school since I was 5, traveling an academic path that went from K12 to college to grad school to postdoc to faculty member. But I recently had occasion to present talk to the principal…
By Rebecca M Price Our faculty learning community discusses teaching and learning on the open web, and we frequently share with each other apps that facilitate learning. I’m a fan of Google docs, and I structure my classes so that students and I share collaborative documents. We frequently brainstorm in…