A roundup of four intriguing or informative posts and
articles from around the internet:
“A Dose of Reality
for First-Year Students and How We Can Help”
A few reminders of what first time in college students might
be thinking and experiencing and what we as instructors can do to help them
succeed.
“Decision Time”
A Study of tens of thousands of college students finds that
those who were open to change their major were more likely to graduate than
those who decided right away.
“Chemistry, Life, the
Universe, and Everything: A New Approach to General Chemistry, and a Model for
Curriculum Reform”
Melanie Cooper and Michael Klymkowsky present a model for
curriculum development based on five questions: (i) What should students know?
(ii) In what order should they learn it? (iii) What do students bring with them
to the course? (iv) What materials are best suited for different purposes? and
(v) How can student understanding be assessed?
“The New Cheating
Economy”
A look at the modern underground economy of cheating that
offers not just a customized paper or one-off assignment, but often the entire
online class.
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