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Decoding The Ivory Tower

Higher Education as if Students Really Matter

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Decoding On-Line Learning
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Decoding On-Line Learning

Moving Beyond Pedagogical Triage in the Covid-19 Era In the last few months teachers around the world at all levels of education have been presented an unprecedented challenge. Facing the…

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May 21, 2020
Marx and Metaphors
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Learning in History / Teaching Strategies

Marx and Metaphors

I am going to say one word to you, and that word will change the entire way that you are looking at the material we are reading for class this…

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August 6, 2019
The Abduction of Professor X
Teaching Strategies

The Abduction of Professor X

Never was the tension between teaching and tenure so visible to me as in those moments, locked in an undergraduate apartment, as the reels of the tape recorder turned, and…

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July 22, 2019
A Game of Chess
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Learning in History / Teaching Strategies

A Game of Chess

       I have never been very proficient at the art of chess.  The one time that I tried to remedy this lack by reading a work on the subject the…

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July 8, 2019
Decoding Art Anxiety
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Decoding Art Anxiety

Arranging Victories for Students Confronted with images like many of those on this page, some students are as confused as I was by the equations of Professor Brown.  But in…

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May 24, 2019
Confessions of a D Student (Part 1)
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / Teaching Strategies

Confessions of a D Student (Part 1)

If there is a hero to this story, it is David Sunquist, a young high school math teacher, who volunteered in the spring of 1962 to teach a handful of…

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April 7, 2019

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About David Pace

About David Pace

David Pace

I am an emeritus professor in the History Department of Indiana University Bloomington, where I have taught since 1971. As the co-director with Joan Middendorf of the Freshman Learning Project, I helped create the Decoding the Disciplines approach to student learning, and I have been working with the scholarship of teaching and learning in its inception. I am dedicated to improving the quality of instruction in higher education as part of the effort to fight back against the inequality of opportunity that plagues our planet. I regularly give talks and workshops around the world on Decoding the Disciplines, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and history teaching. Click here to find out more about me and my work.

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