Course Developer Resources

If you use or are considering using videos in your class - digital or in person - this is a must-read. Includes study findings and recommendations.

A summary of the findings of a recent Bill & Melidna Gates Foundation survey of almost 4,000 post-secondary faculty. (Link to survey/ report provided in article.)

(To log in: use 000-PID; your pin/password is your four digit birthday MMDD) From the abstract: "This article moves beyond exchanging classroom lectures and traditional homework for student watched lectures or videos outside the classroom to free up time for interaction inside the classroom. Using a "discussion starter" approach, the teacher introduces a topic or assignment and then steps aside to allow the students to become the teacher."

Many activities have already been designed by the QEP Critical Thinking scholars and are available to you for duplication or inspiration.

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