teaching – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Recently published: “Adapting a Teaching Method to Fit Purpose and Context” (Glessmer, Bovill & Daae; 2024)

mglessmer — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:02:19 +0000

New article published! “Adapting a Teaching Method to Fit Purpose and Context” (Glessmer, Bovill & Daae; 2024), based on this blogpost, but a little more thought through and polished with Cathy and Kjersti in beautiful Voss! Check it out here, and enjoy! M. S. Glessmer, C. Bovill, and K. Daae (2024). Adapting a teaching method […]

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Today’s reading: “What Students Value in Their Teachers – An Analysis of Male and Female Student Nominations to a Teaching Award” by Wennerberg et al. (2023)

mglessmer — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:13:06 +0000

I’m not a big fan of student evaluations of teaching, since they’ve often been shown to be biased (see for example Heffernan (2021)), so when I saw the title of this article on “What Students Value in Their Teachers – An Analysis of Male and Female Student Nominations to a Teaching Award” by Wennerberg et […]

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Pick a role and write a lecture summary from that perspective. Does that sound motivating?

mglessmer — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 14:53:56 +0000

Kjersti and I have been talking about asking students to take turns and write summaries of lectures throughout the whole semester. We would then give feedback on them to make sure we get a final result that is correct (and that the student learns something, obviously). The summaries are then collected into a booklet that […]

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Why it’s important to use students’ names, and how to make it easy: use name tents! (After Cooper et al., 2017)

mglessmer — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:05:29 +0000

One thing I really enjoy about teaching virtually is that it is really easy to address everybody by their names with confidence, since their names are always right there, right below their faces. But that really does not have to end once we are back in lecture theatres again, because even in large classes, we […]

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Increasing inquiry in lab courses (inspired by @ks_dnnt and Buck et al., 2008)

mglessmer — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:51:24 +0000

My new Twitter friend Kirsty, my old GFI-friend Kjersti and I have been discussing teaching in laboratories. Kirsty recommended an article (well, she did recommend many, but one that I’ve read and since been thinking about) by Buck et al. (2008) on “Characterizing the level of inquiry in the undergraduate laboratory”. In the article, they […]

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Asking for the “nerd topic” when introducing workshop participants to each other to foster self-disclosure to create community

mglessmer — Sun, 02 May 2021 12:05:51 +0000

I am currently teaching a lot of workshops on higher education topics where participants (who previously didn’t know each other, or me) spend 1-1.5 days talking about topics that can feel emotional and intimate and where I want to create an environment that is open and full of trust, and where connections form that last […]

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“Invisible learning” by David Franklin

mglessmer — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:03:46 +0000

Several things happened today. I had a lovely time reading in the hammock I tried to kill two birds with one stone (figuratively of course): writing a blog post about the book I read (which I really loved) and try a new-to-me format of Instagram posts: A caroussel, where one post slides into the next […]

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Student evaluations of teaching are biased, sexist, racist, predjudiced. My summary of Heffernan’s 2021 article

mglessmer — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:06:37 +0000

One of my pet peeves are student evaluations that are interpreted way beyond what they can actually tell us. It might be people not considering sample sizes when looking at statistics (“66,6% of students hated your class!”, “Yes, 2 out of 3 responses out of 20 students said something negative”), or not understanding that student […]

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An overview over what we know about what works in university teaching (based on Schneider & Preckel, 2017)

mglessmer — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:05:28 +0000

I’ve been leading a lot of workshops and doing consulting on university teaching lately, and one request that comes up over and over again is “just tell me what works!”. Here I am presenting an article that is probably the best place to start. The famous “visible learning” study by Hattie (2009) compiled pretty much […]

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Why students cheat (after Brimble, 2016)

mglessmer — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:28:52 +0000

Recently, one topic seemed to emerge a lot in conversations I’ve been having: Students cheating, or the fear thereof. Cheating is “easier” when exams are written online and we don’t have students directly under our noses, and to instructors it feels like cheating has increased a lot (and maybe it has!). We’ve discussed all kinds […]

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