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Maryellen Weimer, PhD

Instructional Design: Six Strategies to Make Courses More Learner Centered Without Sacrificing Content

Concerns about covering content are legitimate, but they often block a whole family of techniques that more effectively involve students and promote learning. “I know I should do more active learning, but I have all this content to cover . . .” We routinely favor involving students but we do so understanding that the content-coverage dilemma confronts faculty with difficult decisions.

Maryellen Weimer, PhD September 27, 2008

Teaching and Learning Scholarship: An Innovative Example

As this example illustrates, scholarship doesn’t always have to take the form of articles in refereed journals and sometimes when the scholarship is pedagogical, other

Maryellen Weimer, PhD September 25, 2008

Understanding Conflicts with Students

Sometimes we get into it with students. Most often it involves grades, exams, and excuses. And most often, at least from our perspective, the students don’t have a case. The grade is fair, the exam contains predictable content, and the offered excuse is lame. We dismiss the complaint and deny that a problem exists. And most of the time we are right, at least from our perspective. But how do these conflicts look from the student side?

Maryellen Weimer, PhD September 5, 2008

Project Introduces Students to Helpful Resources

Many of my students wait until they are in academic trouble before they seek help. By then, they are often in too deep to be retrieved. At the beginning of the semester, I’ve always tried to encourage students to know what support services are available to them. “Find help before you need it!” I tell them. But often times this advice is either completely ignored or stored for use when it’s too late. How could I convince students to heed my advice? I needed a more creative approach…

Maryellen Weimer, PhD September 4, 2008

A FREE PUBLICATION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE TEACHING PROFESSOR

Maryellen Weimer, PhD

Instructional Design: Six Strategies to Make Courses More Learner Centered Without Sacrificing Content

Teaching and Learning Scholarship: An Innovative Example

Understanding Conflicts with Students

Project Introduces Students to Helpful Resources

Using the Syllabus to Lay Down the Law

Students’ Conceptions of Teaching and Learning

Transformational Teaching and Learning

Changes in the Academic Profession

A Viable Literature for College Teaching and Learning

Four Teaching Maxims That Endure

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