Hacking the Academy is a project headed up by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The idea is to crowdsource an edited volume in a week, which is both innovative and ambitious. It’s a little unclear how the peer review piece of this will work at this point, but it [...]
The other day, Ed Neal posted a mock announcement for a new product–the Built-In Organized Orderly Knowledge device (the BOOK)–on the POD Network listserv. I thought Ed’s post was very funny, and it highlighted reasons why the traditional printed book isn’t going away anytime soon. However, his post reminded me of some reviews of e-book [...]
Sunday night, I delivered the opening keynote at Central Michigan University’s Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning. My presentation was titled “Class Time Reconsidered: Motivating Student Participation and Engagement.” My goal was to share some frameworks and strategies for engaging students in the classroom by taking a few common assumptions about teaching and learning [...]
As part of the CFT’s Celebration of Teaching two weeks ago, we put together a slideshow highlighting aspects of the year in teaching and the work of the CFT and our collaborators. The slideshow is now available online via Slideshare. Enjo…
The other day, I argued that attendance policies are problematic, in part because tracking attendance in large classes can be difficult and in part because mandating attendance isn’t particularly motivational for students. What about class participation policies? Is mandating participation any better than mandating attendance? Yes, I think it is. As Brian Croxall wrote in [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I began an experiment, one that’s working out okay so far. I’ve been blogging here at http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs for almost two years now, but lately I’ve wanted to blog about topics other than classroom response systems. Instead of cluttering up this blog with off-topic posts, I’ve started blogging at my main [...]
More from my round-up of articles on clickers in the health professions. This time, another article that doesn’t add much to the literature, but raises an interesting idea. Again, your comments are invited… Reference: Williams, B., & Boyle M. (2008). The use of interactive wireless keypads for interprofessional learning experiences by undergraduate emergency health students. [...]
Okay, my title is a bit provocative, but so is Northern Arizona University’s recent decision to spend $75,000 to install sensors in large classrooms allowing them to track student attendance using the students’ ID cards. The Chronicle article I just referenced generated more than 50 comments, which is a lot for the Chronicle, and most [...]
You may have heard of the micro-blogging service Twitter as a way to share what you had for breakfast or to hear the latest news from celebrities like Ashton Kutcher. Those kinds of things happen on Twitter, but Twitter is also a great way to expand your personal [...]
More from my round-up of articles on clickers in the health professions. A short, but interesting post today. Your comments are invited… Reference: Zurmehly, J., & Leadingham, C. (2008). Exploring student response systems in nursing education. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 26(5), 265-270. Notes: This short article is another introduction to teaching with clickers, although I [...]
Welcome to my home page. I’m Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). I’m also acting director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University.
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