The blog is dead, long live the newsletter!
I haven’t posted to this blog in nearly two years, so it may be time to admit that I’m not likely to […]
Author: Jonathan Malesic
How to get snake people to speak in class
[Cross-posted from CELT Blog] Why is it so hard to generate the kind of class discussion where everyone contributes, and everyone learns, […]
Theology courses are not magic
In the world of Catholic higher education, the Core curriculum review occurring at Notre Dame is getting a lot of attention, especially […]
How to improve student evaluations of your teaching
On the CELT Blog, I reflect on sociologist Dustin Kidd’s advice for How to improve student evaluations of your teaching.
Too much reading
Cross-posted from the CELT Blog, how I responded to mid-semester teaching evaluations that said there was too much reading in my class: Too […]
I am not a labor economist, but I play one on the internet
In case you needed more evidence that a Google search is not a good means for discovering reliable information produced by experts on […]
MOOC students learn a lot, if you don’t count all the ones who fail [Update appended]
Imagine a health study claiming that patients exposed to a new, controversial therapy had outcomes slightly better than those who got the tried-and-true therapy […]
Do we get the students we deserve?
[Cross-posted from the CELT Blog.] Hypothesis: If you assume that students are trustworthy, independent learners, then they will behave trustworthily and learn independently. Corollary: […]
Theology and the marketplace of ideas
The world of Catholic theology in the United States (or at least, that portion of it that exists online) has for the […]