Creating clear pathways from higher education to careers is a focus for policymakers, university leaders and students themselves, but finding ways to deliver effective career preparation that connects ...

The availability of online courses has jumped since the COVID-19 pandemic forced remote instruction. In fall 2022, 30 percent of undergraduate students were enrolled in distance education classes ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have known that practice is essential for learning. But in a new study, they wanted to test whether adding ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Many instructors experience disappointment when their students’ exam scores don’t live up to expectations. How is it possible, we ask ourselves, that so many students failed to grasp the concepts we ...

Ed tech company Swivl has introduced its latest tool, Mirror, which automates helping students develop higher order skills of thought and reflection about their learning and gives teachers insights ...

Determining whether students learn better with in-person classroom learning or online is a multifaceted question. Both modalities offer unique advantages and challenges, impacting student engagement, ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

For young people who were in university at the height of the COVID pandemic, the university experience was suddenly radically different to what they had expected. Teaching moved quickly online, with ...

You’re almost there! As we near the end of the semester, we often encourage students to reflect on and celebrate their accomplishments–including how the new knowledge, skills, and perspectives they ...

Students don’t have to be supervised during online exams. That’s because unsupervised online exams can accurately assess student learning, according to our study published in July 2023 in the ...