Back in early August here on the blog, I described a few “experiments” in more public class participation I planned to implement in my fall cryptography course. Now that we’re a few weeks into the semester, I thought I’d share an update on how things are going. First, a little context. The course is titled [...]
A colleague recently asked me for some references on commonly used active learning approaches in teaching mathematics. I located a few useful ones for her, and I thought I’d recycle my email to her here on the blog in case the references are useful to others, as well. Maria Andersen of Muskegon Community College has [...]
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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