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Assessment and Grading:
- Do high grading standards affect student performance? - Journal of Public Economics
- Grades as information - Economics of Education Review
- Grading exams: 100, 99, 98,...or A, B, C? - Games and Economic Behavior
- How to fix college grade inflation - US News and World Report.
- Imagining college without grades - Inside Higher Ed
- Teaching more by grading less (or differently) - Life Sciences Education
- The effect of nonlinear incentives on performance: Evidence from "Econ 101" - The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Why we should stop grading students on a curve - New York Times
Creativity and Innovation:
- Do schools kill creativity? - Ken Robinson, TEDTalk
- Memory Machines and Collective Memory: How We Remember the History of the Future of Technological Change - EDUCAUSE Review
- Your brain on improv - Charles Limb, TEDtalk
- Your elusive creative genius - Elizabeth Gilbert, TEDtalk
Higher Education - General:
- A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Death of the university greatly exaggerated, says Michael Crow - World Academic Summit - Times Higher Education
- Expanding the role of the library in teaching and learning: Distance learning initiatives - Association of College and Research Libraries
- The Future for Teaching and Learning: Librarians' Deepening Involvement in Pedagogy and Curriculum - American Libraries Magazine
- The Librarian on the Teaching Team: An essential partnership - Inside Higher Ed
- Libraries as Enablers of Pedagogical and Curricular Change- EDUCAUSE Review Online
- The trends report: 10 key shifts in higher education - Chronicle of Higher Education
Online/Blended Learning:
- 5 Easy Steps for Creating an Engaging Online Course - Inside Higher Ed
- Best practices for teaching online - Inside Higher Ed
- Different and the Same - Inside Higher Ed
- Guide to teaching online courses - National Education Association
- Synchronous online classes: 10 tips for engaging students - Faculty Focus, Magna Publications
Teaching and Design:
- Best Practices for Teaching and Learning - Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Missouri State University
- Best practices for teaching online - Inside Higher Ed
- Do schools kill creativity? - Ken Robinson, TEDtalk
- How Can We Design For A Better Experience? - Tony Fadell, TED Radio Hour
- How Technology Enhances Teaching and Learning - Vanderbilt University
- Kids can teach themselves - Sugata Mitra, TEDtalk
- New Credential Aims to Make Professors Into Better Teachers - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Technology:
- As High-Tech Teaching Catches On, Students With Disabilities Can Be Left Behind - Chronicle of Higher Education
- Best Practices for Teaching Online - Inside Higher Ed
- Increasing Student Interaction with Lightboard - EDUCAUSE Review
- The digital skills divide - Inside Higher Ed
- The effects of technology use in postsecondary education: A meta-analysis of classroom applications - Computers and Education
- Enough With the Laptop Ban Debate! - Inside Higher Ed
- Let's use video to reinvent education - Salman Khan, TEDtalk
- Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex - Nature
- Six significant challenges for technology in higher education in 2017 - Times Higher Education
- Top 10 Recommended Podcasts - ACUE
- The Trouble with Robots - Kate Darling, Why IT Matters to Higher Education - EDUCAUSE Review
Brain, Intellect, and Memory:
- How your working memory makes sense of the world - Peter Dolittle, TEDtalk
- Learning rewires the brain - Science News for Students
- Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents - James Flyn, TEDtalk
- Davies, N. (2001). Planning and teaching to remember. Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 12(2), 26-31
- Schreiner, M., Rothenberger, C. and Shaltz, A. (2013). Using brain research to drive college teaching: Innovations in universal course design. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 24(3), 29-50
Employer Expectations:
- Career readiness competencies: Employer survey results - National Association for Colleges and Employers
- Hart Research Associates - Association of American College and Universities
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Learning and Education:
- Changing education paradigms - Ken Robinson, TEDtalk
- Confusion can be beneficial for learning - Learning and Instruction
- Deliberately difficult - why it’s better to make learning harder - The Learning Spy
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Lee Duckworth, TEDtalk
- How to escape education's death valley - Ken Robinson, TEDtalk
- Learning from a barefoot movement - Roy Bunker, TEDtalk
- Learning is About Making Connections - The Cross Papers Number 3
- Lessons from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education - Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
- Player-Centered Coaching: Enhancing player game sense - Strategies
- Pursuit of ignorance - Stuart Firestein, TEDtalk
- Teaching students facts 'no longer critical' in internet age - Times Higher Education
- Teaching Students to Marshal Evidence and Evaluate Claims - EDUCAUSE review
- Universal Design for Instruction: A New Paradigm for Adult Instruction in Postsecondary Education - Remedial and Special Education
- VR: A new dimension in learning? - Times Higher Education
- Ambrose, S., Bridges, M., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. and Norman, M. (2010). How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
- Meyer, J., Land, R. and Bailli, C. (E.d.s). (2010, January 5). Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Mitra, S. (n.d.) Hole in the Wall Education Project
- Mueller, P. and Oppemheimer, D. (2014). The pen is mightier than the keyboard: Advantages of longhand over laptop note taking. Psychological Science, 1-10. doi: 10.1177/0956797614524581
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