As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we ...

One of Kevin Gannon’s favorite class discussion activities doesn’t involve much talking. Inspired by complete-the-story games in which players each write a line of a tale that builds off a previous ...

Some students and educators say classroom discussions are starting to feel more formulaic as generative AI becomes more common in academic work, though broad evidence of a campus-wide shift remains ...

At some point in their career, every teacher will find themselves having a difficult discussion with their students. My first took place not long after I began teaching. It involved one of my students ...

Strategies like extending wait time and having students write before speaking create conditions for English learners to feel ...

A class at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business uses an AI agent to record student conversations, analyze their ...

Engaging interactive tasks can help middle school students more easily understand complex informational and literary works.

I read with interest Anna Broadbent’s essay on the benefits and pitfalls of class participation grades. From my perch as a provost, former dean and former department chair, I find that the grade for ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas Board of Regents voted Thursday morning to adopt a new policy that creates guidelines for teaching “controversial and contested” subjects. The new policy, ...

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...