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'The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.'

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"The Doucette Index provides access to books and websites that
contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and
young adults, and the creators of those books. The books indexed
are those held by the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, but
many of these books will also be available in other libraries."

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'This isn't a complete shock, as the authors cite a study that indicated that presentations containing irrelevant pictures or sounds (we're looking at you, corporate PowerPoint templates) can also decrease student comprehension. The surprise is that animations that are intended to increase focus can be just as distracting. Note the "can" in that sentence, however-the differences between the scores of the two groups ranged from insignificant to nearly 25 percent, so it's clear that animation isn't uniformly harmful to learning, a point the authors themselves note in the discussion. '

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PowerPoints teaching students education

'When people talk about "colleges" doing this or that, or "higher education" failing to confront one problem or another, to whom are they referring? Anyone who has worked in or around the academy knows all too well that colleges and universities are made up of significantly different audiences that approach any given subject from widely divergent perspectives. It's probably not surprising, then, that quick and decisive action to deal with emerging problems may be hard to come by.'

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higher_education costs teaching

"On class size, not a single one of the colleges meet the guidelines. For remedial writing (recommended class size not to exceed 15), one college reported a cap in the 15-20 range, while five were at 21-25, four were at 26-30, 6 were at 31 to 35 ..."

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'There were some skeptics here this morning at , listening to a talk called "Building the Classroom of the Future: From iTunes to Twitter." Some in the audience seemed unconvinced that tools connecting students to the Web, and to one another, would help in that future classroom.' Includes discussion.

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'The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher ed

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"The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) obtains, on an annual basis, information from hundreds of four-year colleges and universities nationwide about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning

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"A much discussed essay in the journal College Composition and Communication last year was titled “A Kind Word for Bullshit: The Problem of Academic Writing.” In the essay, Philip Eubanks and John D. Schaeffer -- both on the English faculty at Northern Il

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Educational material in government agencies' collections: primary sources, animations, photos, videos--history, literature, science, etc.

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"a short chronology of events in American history and literature. It is linked to course pages and bibliographies as well as to a set of more general linked resources: pages on American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites."

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"With Academic Commons... [seeks]to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education."

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Issue devoted to new media

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"What emerged from this work was a picture of learning that drew our attention to a series of intermediate thinking processes that characterize flexible thinking, processes that digital media are especially good at making visible. This includes such thing

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"Some faculty can find fault with just about any instructional technology. Why, they ask, should I bother to learn how to use this new technology and how can it possibly help me to improve student learning?"

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"One of the foremost problems in teaching writing in the college classroom is helping students gain a more profound concept of audience. Trained for years to write answers to short questions in text books, while writing fewer and fewer essays in high scho

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"As more professors use clickers, experts are considering how these devices can be more (or less) effective. Derek Bruff, assistant director of Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching, has written a book that reviews the uses of clickers and offers ad

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'A new report calls on English instructors to design a new curriculum and develop new pedagogies -- from kindergarten through graduate school -- responding to the reality that students mostly “write to the net.”'

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"Instead, I argue, scholars in the social sciences, arts, and humanities should consider seriously how the often underestimated value of their teaching and research could be further justified to the wider public through substantive contributions to today’

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Stanley Fish's blog reflecting on the usefulness of higher education and reviewing the new book, “The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities,” by Frank Donoghue

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