#TeachingTuesday – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

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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Teaching field courses in a virtual setting

mglessmer — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:12:45 +0000

For many people it has been (and still is!) a huge hassle to quickly figure out ways to teach field courses in a covid-19 world, and I can relate so much! But I’m also getting more and more excited about the possibilities that are opening up when we think about fieldwork in a new way. […]

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#TeachingTuesday: Some things I read about making good lecture videos

mglessmer — Tue, 19 May 2020 12:05:49 +0000

Just imagine you had written an article on “Student Satisfaction and Learning Outcomes in Asynchronous Online Lecture Videos”, like Choe et al. (2019) did. What excellent timing to inform teaching decisions all around the world! Choe et al. compare 8 different video styles (all of which can be watched as supplementary material to the article […]

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“Excursion week” in Oceanography 101 while physically distancing

mglessmer — Tue, 12 May 2020 14:22:19 +0000

My friend’s university recently decided that “excursion week” (a week in May during which there are no lectures or exercises or anything happening at university to make time for field courses during the semester) is cancelled this year. Which is, of course, not surprising given the current situation, but it isn’t cancelled as in “go […]

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