Professor of Economics Steven Greenlaw authored a chapter on how to teach effectively online in Mark Maier and Phil Ruder’s forthcoming Teaching Principles of Microeconomics by Edward Elgar Publishing. While focussed on teaching introductory economics, the principles described are applicable to most disciplines.
Eleven UMW faculty from a variety of disciplines worked together in 2020 as the Advocacy, Deliberation, and Civic Engagement Learning Community. The group was led by Leslie Martin and Anand Rao, representing the Center for Community Engagement and the Speaking Intensive Program. The goal of the group was for the participants to work together to […]
To teach mitosis, April Wynn has students in her class act out the process, portraying chromosomes that divide into nuclei. The assistant professor of biological sciences hopes to replicate lively exercises like this – but virtually – in the fall.“My goal is to promote the same level of engagement, energy and enthusiasm in an online […]
Professor of Economics Steve Greenlaw was recently interviewed in an article on Ed Surge entitled, “‘Better Every Semester’: How Faculty Use Open Educational Resources to Improve Courses.”In addition to providing students with text and video content, courseware tools also have built-in nudges and assessments—sometimes personalized—that generate instant feedback about whether students are mastering the assigned […]
