Classroom Assessment Techniques – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Preparing my course “Teaching for Sustainability” with the support of Noah (2025)’s brilliant book

mglessmer — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:21:20 +0000

In preparation for this fall’s online course on “Teaching for Sustainability“, I was looking into what kind of methods I want to model. And then — perfect timing — I started reading of Noah (2025)’s brilliant book on “Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality: A Guide to Crafting Engaging Professional Learning Experiences in Higher Education” […]

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Currently reading up on Classroom Assessment Techniques

mglessmer — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:47:15 +0000

I’m currently preparing several courses and this book “Classroom Assessment Techniques” has been on my “to read during the summer” pile since last summer or so… So it was about time I moved it to my desk and dug into it! The book exists in much newer editions, this just happens to be the one […]

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Reading “Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar” by Bosanquet & Harvey (2005), and checking out their MOOC

mglessmer — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:42:05 +0000

I have always liked online learning, and ever since my first MOOC experiences (with the “Evidence-based undergraduate STEM teaching” MOOC on Coursera back in 2015, which set me on the path of letting people take pictures of disciplinary content out in the real world and sharing it on Twitter, which then became #WaveWatching, and now […]

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Currently reading: “Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: A model and seven principles of good feedback practice” (Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2006)

mglessmer — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:57:40 +0000

Somehow a print of the “Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: A model and seven principles of good feedback practice” (Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2006) article ended up on my desk. I don’t know who wanted me to read it, but I am glad I did! See my summary below. Feedback. I feel like this topic is talked […]

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Reflections on the GeoLearning Forum 2021

mglessmer — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:16:52 +0000

On October 21. and 22., I attended the fourth iEarth GeoLearning Forum (GLF). The GLF is an opportunity for geoscience teachers and students from all over Norway to meet up and learn from and with each other. This year, the GLF was organised in a hotel close to Oslo, and attended by more than 100 participants, […]

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Enabling backchannel communication between a lecturer and a large group

mglessmer — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 05:10:44 +0000

Using technology to enable active engagement with content in a large lecture. In 2014, I presented the paper “Enabling backchannel communication between a lecturer and a large group” at the SEFI conference in Birmingham. That paper is based on work that I have done with two colleagues – the instructor of a large lecture, and the […]

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Activating the backchannel

mglessmer — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:25:07 +0000

Using technology to enable active engagement with content in a large lecture. I have recently presented the paper “Enabling backchannel communication between a lecturer and a large group” at the SEFI 2014 conference in Birmingham. That paper is based on work that I have done with two colleagues – the instructor of a large lecture, and […]

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Asking students to tell us about “the muddiest point”

mglessmer — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:02:07 +0000

Getting feedback on what was least clear in a course session. A classroom assessment technique that I like a lot is “the muddiest point”. It is very simple: At the end of a course unit, you hand out small pieces of papers and ask students to write down the single most confusing point (or the […]

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Classroom Assessment Techniques – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Preparing my course “Teaching for Sustainability” with the support of Noah (2025)’s brilliant book

Currently reading up on Classroom Assessment Techniques

Reading “Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar” by Bosanquet & Harvey (2005), and checking out their MOOC

Recommended reading: “Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity” (Tanner, 2013)

Currently reading: “Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: A model and seven principles of good feedback practice” (Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2006)

Reflections on the GeoLearning Forum 2021

Enabling backchannel communication between a lecturer and a large group

Activating the backchannel

Asking students to tell us about “the muddiest point”