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Using twitter as a tool to let students discover that the topics of their courses are EVERYWHERE

December 3, 2015

This is a method that I have been excited about ever since learning about #birdclass in the “Evidence-based undergraduate STEM teaching” MOOC last year: Help students discover that the content of…

Preparing my workshop on how learning works

September 23, 2015

As you know, I’m preparing a workshop for teaching assistants in mechanical engineering at Dresden University of Technology. And even though I’ve given similar workshops successfully more than once before, it…

And even more on motivation

September 21, 2015

Last week we talked about motivation quite a bit: First about why do students engage in academic tasks?, then about how motivation is proportional to the expectation of achieving a…

Motivation proportional to the expectation of achieving a goal?

September 16, 2015

In the last post I talked about a paper on “Motivating Learners: A Primer for Engineering Teaching Assistants” by Torres-Ayala and Herman (2012). Today, I want to present a different…

Motivation: dangle a carrot rather than threaten with a whip!

September 14, 2015

Why do students engage in academic tasks? Next week I am giving a workshop on teaching large classes at TU Dresden. I gave a similar workshop there in spring, but…

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Using twitter as a tool to let students discover that the topics of their courses are EVERYWHERE

Preparing my workshop on how learning works

And even more on motivation

Motivation proportional to the expectation of achieving a goal?

Motivation: dangle a carrot rather than threaten with a whip!

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