EDvice Exchange | Center for the Advancement of Teaching

EDvice Exchange is the Center for the Advancement of Teaching‘s blog. It serves instructors in the Temple community and other institutions of higher education. This resource provides effective, research-based teaching practices for your consideration.

Composing a Course for Significant Learning

10/29/13

Course design is to teaching and learning what sheet music is to performing a symphony. Both require careful composition, indeed, but to deliver the best outcome, the most satisfying result, all parts must work together harmoniously. A well integrated course provides structure and is characterized by a reciprocal alignment among the essential course components: goals, assessments, and teaching and learning activities.

Teaching with Twitter

9/24/13

Even at seven years old, Twitter still has a reputation as a forum for minutiae by the minute. But this popular platform boasts more than half a billion users, and as more people sign on, the ways in which Twitter is leveraged continue to diversify.

Increasingly, members of the education community — from students to professors to universities themselves — are connecting and tweeting, and Twitter can be an effective tool for engaging students in learning at the college level.

Twitter How-To

9/23/13

For those of you who may be new to Twitter, we’ve assembled a quick tutorial on some of the finer points of Twitter along with some simple implementation strategies for your classroom. For more insight into how to incorporate Twitter into your teaching practices, read our post on teaching with Twitter.

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