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Decoding The Ivory Tower

Higher Education as if Students Really Matter

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Old Dog, New Tricks, and SoTL:  50 Years of Progress
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Learning in History / Teaching Strategies / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Old Dog, New Tricks, and SoTL: 50 Years of Progress

  “I hope I didn't sound too much down on teaching. I enjoy it.   And it is not a great deal of work right now. But it’s really not a…

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September 10, 2021
Decoding On-Line Learning
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching Strategies

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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