Category: Teaching
MOOCs explained: Phil Hill
| May 16, 2013 | Filed under Teaching |
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Phil Hill, education consultant and blogger, is giving the keynote on the second day of UD’s annual Summer Faculty Institute, May 29, 2013. In this interview, Hill talked about the history of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and how they fit in with the… full post
Tweets & other tech create enthusiasm inside & outside the classroom
| April 11, 2013 | Filed under Business Administration, Lerner College of Business and Economics, Marketing, Teaching |
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Assistant Professor Anuradha Sivaraman, Business Administration, is one of the most enthusiastic users of twitter on the UD campus. During this conversation, Anu talked with us about twitter increasing student participation in her courses, student engagement with class material outside of class time, and… full post
Steiner to address UD Faculty Institute
| January 17, 2013 | Filed under Physics and Astronomy, Teaching |
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Prior to his visit to the 2013 University of Delaware Faculty Institute (January 22, 2013), Rob Steiner, Director, Online Teacher Education Programs at the American Museum of Natural History, chatted with us on the telephone. Dr. Steiner talked about the role of online education… full post
Look at the sky!
| December 13, 2012 | Filed under College of Arts & Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Teaching |
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Judith Provencal, resident astronomer at the Mt. Cuba Observatory and an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was always curious about the sky. She is an Asteroseismologist, studying pulsating White Dwarf stars, coordinating the collection of data from observers all around the world–all while getting… full post
Daddy Yankee for grammar; Vargas Llosa for culture
| November 1, 2012 | Filed under College of Arts & Sciences, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Teaching |
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Asima Saad Maura, Foreign Languages and Literatures, talks with us about how she brings Spanish language popular music into her UD classes to reinforce grammatical principles, to help students listen with a "grammar ear" and to learn about the singer’s culture. She also discusses… full post
