During my freshman year at the University of Michigan, I had the displeasure of taking Math 105. Like all intro-level math courses at the University, this class is taught using a “flipped classroom” ...
As the fall term winds down, many of us are thinking ahead to the winter and spring, planning courses and refreshing syllabi in anticipation of the coming year. One part of the syllabus design that ...
L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...
Creating a bioactive habitat with students can give them a window into the natural world while easing the upkeep for class ...
After classroom assignments are complete for the semester, departments are able to request changes to classroom assignments via 25Live Room Seek in CLSS or the Classroom Change Request form (must be ...
What if high school included kayaking classic whitewater in Patagonia, climbing tufas in Greece, riding A-Line in Whistler, or kiting perfect wind in Brazil—while earning a diploma and applying to ...
On a Tuesday at the end of last semester, I asked my first-year writing class how they were using AI in their courses. One of my strongest students raised her hand. She admitted, ...
Blue books made a comeback in 2025. In an effort to prevent students from feeding final essay prompts into ChatGPT, some professors asked their students to sit down and write in-person in the lined, ...