Many teachers in higher education use feedback from students to evaluate their teaching, but only some use these evaluations to improve their teaching.

This article addresses new research on how people learn, active learning, and student engagement; includes illustrative examples from online teaching; and reports on the effectiveness of the author’s time-tested model. Fink also explores recent changes in higher education nationally and... Read more about Creating significant learning experiences :an integrated approach to designing college courses

The advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential in the field of education. The study explores three main areas: (1) How did ChatGPT answer questions related to science education? (2) What are some ways educators could utilise ChatGPT in their science pedagogy?... Read more about Examining Science Education in ChatGPT: An Exploratory Study of Generative Artificial Intelligence

The recent popularity of generative AI (GAI) applications such as ChatGPT portend a new era of research, teaching, and learning across domains, including in engineering (Bubeck et al., 2023; Kasneci et al., 2023; Lo, 2023; Qadir, 2023). In this guest editorial, we discuss the potential impact of... Read more about Generative artificial intelligence and engineering education

Second Life (SL) is currently the most mature and popular multi-user virtual world platform being used in education. Through an in-depth examination of SL, this article explores its potential and the barriers that multi-user virtual environments present to educators wanting to use immersive 3-D... Read more about Second Life in higher education: Assessing the potential for and the barriers to deploying virtual worlds in learning and teaching

This study analyzes the influence of avatars on social presence, interpersonal trust, perceived communication quality, nonverbal behavior, and visual attention in Net‐based collaborations using a comparative approach.

Peer feedback is frequently implemented with academic writing tasks in higher education. However, a quantitative synthesis is still lacking for the impact that peer feedback has on students’ writing performance. The current study conveyed two types of observations.

Students learn more when they are actively engaged in the classroom than they do in a passive lecture environment. Extensive research supports this observation, especially in college-level science courses (... Read more about Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom

Freshmen Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs) can be powerful outreach tools for incoming college students and provide an exciting introduction to the field of engineering. The benefits reach not only the first year students, but also the upperclassmen who help to run the programs and the departments... Read more about Engineering Outreach through College Pre-Orientation Programs: MIT Discover Engineering

A self-paced course with optional comprehension checks, Zero-L is taught by leading Harvard faculty members, and covers fundamental elements of the law — including an introduction to the U.S. Constitution, the court system, and concepts like federalism — as well as some critical elements of law... Read more about For a second year, Harvard Law to offer pre-term ‘Zero-L’ course to other law schools for free

Supportive co-teaching (SCT) is the practice of employing two or more experts whose knowledge and experiences are needed simultaneously to make a connection across different disciplines in a classroom. Although this interdisciplinary approach seems to be beneficial, there are many features which... Read more about Students’ view on supportive co-teaching in medical sciences: a systematic review

This paper serves as a phenomenological reflection about the meaning of a co-teaching experience at the college level for two graduate teaching assistants. When two teachers combine planning and teaching efforts it is called co-teaching. As a pedagogical method for both instructors and students, co... Read more about Co-teaching in the college classroom

Special collections departments are predominately portrayed or perceived as a place for researchers rather than as a means for enhancing the learning experience for the undergraduate student.

This paper reports on an interdisciplinary training initiative involving student interpreters and medical students. It provides qualitative evidence on how the stakeholders involved perceive the effects of including foreign-language speaking simulated patients (SPs) in medical interpreter training...

In 2014, Medicine in Mandarin was established by the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) as a pre-clinical elective taught by a nationally certified healthcare Mandarin interpreter. A 32-hour curriculum was developed, including both didactics and interactive elements. Assessments included... Read more about Medicine in Mandarin: Introducing Native Language Training in a Medical School Curriculum