As a recent college graduate in the early 1990s, with fewer books under my belt than many of my students and almost no developed competencies in teaching, I landed one of the most coveted teaching ...

Hereabouts, we call it “weather-weather.” Elsewhere, it is called the inevitable pendulum swing or regression towards the mean. That worldwide and eternal phenomenon now applies to textbooks. Before ...

When attempting to help students in math, don’t forget the human factor. That appears to be the central conclusion of an article I came across recently, which came out this fall in the Review of ...

The Santa Barbara-based nonprofit organization Teaching Beyond Textbooks is hosting its inaugural Summer Institute with education leader Ron Ritchhart on Aug. 9 at Montecito Union School. Ritchhart, ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. With the much-anticipated arrival of the Apple iPad this month, we are one step closer to the classroom use of portable electronic readers that wirelessly download ...

Technology plays a minor role in transforming teachers and our educators need support In recent years innovation in technology has compressed the world into a pocket-sized edition with everything at ...

They aren't only too expensive, they are boring and your students will learn more without them, writes Rob Weir. Here’s a statement with which everyone can agree: College instructors cannot assume ...