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I used to take it for granted that in order to get students to do any sort of work, I needed to attach a grade to it. So I decided to try something radical: Don’t give them a quiz at all. Just let them do the Guided Practice and let that be that. What surprised me was that not only did the completion rates for Guided Practice not get worse, the students’ comprehension of basic ideas improved, and their work in class improved as well.Robert Talbert
The past years have witnessed the apparition of one of the largest educational revolutions of our time: many prognosticators trumpet how MOOCs and flipped classroom models are one of the most promising educational approaches of the last century. Paradoxically, those so-called “innovations” are incorporating none of the educational research produced over the past decades. MOOCs and flipped classrooms are merely recreating the same pedagogical structure without questioning the scientific validity of this model. The alternative is to put the “practice” in front of the “tell”.Bertrand Schneider, Paulo Blikstein, Roy Pea, Stanford
Knowles’ theory of andragogy...emphasizes that adults are self-directed and expect to take responsibility for decisions.In practical terms, andragogy means that instruction for adults needs to focus more on the process and less on the content being taught. Strategies such as case studies, role playing, simulations, and self-evaluation are most useful. Instructors adopt a role of facilitator or resource rather than lecturer or grader.Richard Culatta and Greg Kearsley, InstructionalDesign.org

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1. Introduction – Evidence-Based Instructional Design and the G.A.M.E.S. Approach
Discover evidence-based approach to instructional design and what the latest research shows about what methods empower undergraduate and graduate students to truly learn in your classes. Learn our G.A.M.E.S. method for super fast course development and lecture preparation.
2. Designing Your Amazing Course
Step-by-step videos to help you design a course that students will rave about and that you feel proud to teach. How to structure and sequence your course content for success. Set your course goals and learning outcomes.
3. Creating a Dynamic Classroom
Learn how to be a more effective teacher by becoming a facilitator, where you support your students in doing their best thinking. Learn how to create a classroom culture from day 1 that encourages full participation, mutual respect and understanding, and foster a sense of shared accountability.
4. Owning Your Expertise
He we do a deep dive into mindset and motivation. If you struggle with confidence in the classroom, imposter syndrome, challenging students and hard to manage group dynamics, learn about where confidence truly comes from and discover the counterintuitive way to wrestle back control of your classroom without being authoritative or overbearing.
5. Course Evaluations Made Easy
Course evals carry a disproportionate weight in your dossier, relative to their effectiveness in actually capturing how effective your teaching truly is! Learn strategies to boost your course evaluations, how to write about them in your evaluation, and other creative ways to document your teaching effectiveness. This module also covers grading and other assessments of student performance that don't rely on you doing all the work. Also learn how to avoid assigning too much, and creating all your assessments and rubrics up front to make grading a breeze.
6. Enhancing Your Class
We provide templates and go over how to create effective lecture content and slides, handouts, videos, and more, here. We also cover how to gain the skills to introduce technology to your classroom and go beyond 'flipping' the class to review what the research shows it takes to get your students ready to learn and master new subject matter.

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