Helping Student Succeed

One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that students need to learn, and need to learn fast. One of the areas that I help medical students with i

Continuing-generation college students are often better prepared by their family and peer networks for academic success than first-gen students with more limited support networks. In this episode, Elizabeth Canning and Makita White join us to discuss their research on differences in academic and non-academic help-seeking behaviors between first-gen and continuing generation students.

"As a country, we don't like giving poor people money and that's what they need the most," says author Stephanie Land. Her 2019 memoir Maid inspired a 10-part Netflix series.

Respondents to the newest Student Voice survey seem to value passion as much as practicality in preparing for a career and expect moderate to high levels of support from professors and academic advisers in this area. Students also weigh in on what career centers are doing right—and could be doing better.

The guests provide valuable insights into connecting education and career readiness in order to prepare today's students for tomorrow's workforce. Recent evidence confirms that post-secondary credentials, employability skills and ongoing career mentoring are key to student success.

Author Ana Homayoun joins hosts Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn to discuss her new book Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission. They ask what other measures for success should we consider for a student in higher ed beyond academics. The conversation explores expanding one’s social circles, networking, finding mentors, and developing life management skills. The episode is sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ascendium Education Group.

Interleaving is the idea that, while learning, we will learn more if we jumble up our review of similar materials, rather than reviewing one concept at a time in a blocked format. One thing that we’ve heard from educators is that they worry interleaving can be too challenging for students and that s

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by Emily Pitts Donahoe, associate director of instructional support This past Wednesday, CETL was thrilled to host guest speaker Dr. Cate Denial, the Bright Distinguished Professor of American History and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College. Cate is the principal investigator on a Mellon Foundation grant exploring “Pedagogies, Communities, and Practices of Care […]

Humility and curiosity can encourage students to be passionate about learning and open to others’ perspectives.

A conversation about the book Kevin is writing on the university as a workplace.

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Pooja Agarwal shares about lessons in life and retrieval practice on episode 479 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

The struggle for our own attention led teaching and learning specialists to design a targeted workshop series using mindfulness and other strategies.

Students develop preferred approaches to studying when preparing for exams. However, many techniques they rely on are likely to be less effective (e.g., cramming, rereading) than techniques that research has identified as more durable and effective (e.g., spaced practice, retrieval practice). The qu

As “digitally evolved knowledge workers,” our students engage differently than the generations before them; as educators, we need to adapt, Jenny Darroch writes.

I sometimes tell a story about my first solo book, Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, involving a crisis that hit about 2/3 of the way through writing it. I forget what topic I’d o…

With insights into the four beliefs, your instructional practices can help students choose learning goals and academic behaviors that lead to their success

With the end of the semester within sight, we feature a small strategy that makes a big impact on student learning – based on decades of cognitive science research . In scientific lingo, we call it "free recall."

Teachers and students alike know that lectures can be boring. The following quip, widely attributed to Albert Camus, elegantly captures this sentiment; “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” Yet we – and students – have also experienced situations in which we sat mesmerized as we listened to an exceptionally captivating lecturer. While few of ... Read More

This article is a partial transcript of an episode of the EdSurge Podcast. For the full interview, listen here.Students are looking for something ...

Roxanne Donovan talks about well being and social justice on episode 460 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Students in need benefited from emergency pandemic supports that are now disappearing, but the need remains

The secrets are not a secret.

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