Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

Beckie explains how one instructor used trial and error to change her approach to creating relevant assignments. Beth describes a new effort to help professors ...

Strong academic writing starts with accurate interpretation. When you clearly understand what the assignment is asking, everything from generating a thesis, outlining, research, drafting, and revising ...

A guide to crafting and writing clear assignment instructions that students can understand and follow If your assignments require students to find, evaluate or use information sources of any kind, the ...

Include more detailed instruction and prompt examples for assignments. While not all students need this, at least 20 per cent of the students surveyed indicated they wanted even more direction than ...

As the managing director of a security consultancy business, and having worked in the security sector for 20 years now, I’ve seen many changes within the industry. With the relatively recent ...