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Created by Heather Macdonald College of William and Mary and Rebecca Teed, SERC and updated by Gail Hoyt, University of Kentucky, Jennifer Imazeki, San Diego State University, Barbara Millis University of Texas, ...

What is interactive lecture?

An interactive lecture is an easy way for instructors to intellectually engage and involve students as active participants in a lecture-based class of any size. Interactive lectures are classes in which the instructor breaks the lecture at least once per class to have students participate in an activity that lets them work directly with the material.

The instructor might begin the interactive segment with an engagement trigger that captures and maintains student attention. Then the instructor incorporates an activity that allows students to apply what they have learned or give them a context for upcoming lecture material. As the instructor feels more comfortable using interactive techniques he or she might begin to call upon a blend of various interactive techniques all in one class period.

 

Blended learning is quite simply one of the most overused terms to describe the current state of education's relationship with technology. However, it fits.

We should judge teaching not by the amount of knowledge it passes on, but by the enduring excitement it generates.

Hoping to help Ph.D.s secure jobs and challenge old notions about academe, Stanford University will encourage and pay for humanities graduate students to pursue careers as high school teachers, starting next year.

The plan consists of a new course offering that will expose graduate students to humanities issues in high school pedagogy and curriculum, and a promise by the School of Humanities and Sciences to fully fund each humanities Ph.D. admitted to the competitive Stanford Teacher Education Program in the Graduate School of Education.

 

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/24/phds-teachers-and-other-ideas-emerge-panel-doctoral-reform-stanford#ixzz2UCrt70mb ;
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El estado de Texas en Estados Unidos, inaugurará próximamente la que se considera es la primera biblioteca sin libros físicos del mundo. Conozca más detalles sobre este proyecto pionero.

Great report from the University of Edinburgh on their six 2013 Coursera MOOCs. The report has good data, tries to separate out active learners from window shoppers and not short on surprises. It’s a rich resource and a follow up report is promised. Well done Edinburgh – this is in the true spirit of HE – open, transparent and looking to innovate and improve.

The Institute for Science and Math Education at the University of Washington recently offered a crash course on the Next Generation Science Standards. Director of the Institute Philip Bell and a pa...

Countries outside the world's elite university systems are better at transforming research capacity into citations, a report suggests.

While the U.S. and the U.K. are good at converting research inputs into outputs and are improving, the likes of Denmark, Switzerland, France and Ireland are making the most of their resources and improving efficiency at a greater rate, the study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has found.

Meanwhile, countries pumping huge resources into research such as China, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea have relatively low and even decreasing levels of efficiency, it adds.

The study, by Dirk van Damme, head of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation at the OECD, has been produced for the sixth Global University Summit. Organized by the University of Warwick, the summit will be held in London next week.

Professor van Damme used research and citation scores for the top 200 institutions in the 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings as measures of "input" and "output" and compared them to gauge efficiency.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/24/new-research-where-find-most-research-citations#ixzz2UCt3QXxi ;
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