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NEW TOOL: Helping Students Learn How to Work in Groups

By Robyn Bergstrom and Brian Schmidt Increasingly, faculty members are requiring students to take more responsibility for their learning through the use of collaborative activities.  Group work is one of many Teach One Another approaches proven to be effective in increasing student lea... [More]
Posted November 19, 2009 Comments (0)

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Next Tuesday and Next Semester - Two Development Opportunities

By Suzette Gee   Next semester, I look forward to leading a teaching group on "Writing to Learn." The group will focus on how writing can be used in different subject areas and in different stages of learning. The g... [More]
Posted November 19, 2009 Comments (0)

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Book Review: Thinking about Teaching and Learning

It's the unfortunate truth that much of what has been written about education could disappear from the library shelves and databases with no appreciable impact on our understanding of learning and teaching.  Hugh Nibley spoke disparaging... [More]
Posted November 05, 2009 Comments (1)

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Organizing Your Course on I-Learn

Students learn - or fail to learn -- based not only on the material with which they engage, but based on the way that the information is organized as they engage it.  How we organize both the process and the content of our courses, therefore, has a significant impact on student learning. ... [More]
Posted October 22, 2009 Comments (0)

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Principles, Processes and Practices of the BYU-Idaho Learning Model

By Daniel Baird and Devan Barker   There's been a good bit of discussion on campus recently about whether the techniques associated with the Learning Model have come to overshadow its underlying principles. Stated another way, what should be the relationship between the princip... [More]
Posted October 22, 2009 Comments (3)

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Questions, Problems, & Cases: Learning How to Frame Collaboration Activities to Reach Our Objectives

Good questions and problems are critical to engaging students in our courses.  If we can draw upon students' curiosity and their instinctive nature to solve problems learning becomes exciting.  Yet coming up with the good questions is difficult.  It is not easy to find problems... [More]
Posted October 07, 2009 Comments (0)

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“Pastures of Learning”

In the early eighteenth century, the poet and essayist Joseph Addison, drawing on imagery taken from the 23rd psalm, wrote a text comparing the Lord's interactions with us to a shepherd preparing a pasture.  The text to this poem has become a beloved Christian hymn, but as a study in prepar... [More]
Posted October 07, 2009 Comments (1)

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Faculty Conference a Resounding Success

By Ryan Nielson   The first of what will hopefully be a long series of Faculty Conferences took place just prior to the beginning of fall term. The Faculty Development Committee (FDC) organized the event, with the generou... [More]
Posted September 23, 2009 Comments (0)

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