We need to rethink the curriculum and not try to cram everything students will ever need to know into their heads in a short period. Instead, we need to train curiosity, self-reliance, cooperative skills, and knowledge of how to learn on their own, knowl
The big loss appears to be unambiguously in Basic licenses, there is no evidence at this time that Blackboard is losing its lucrative Enterprise or Vista customers. The loss of the lower-end customers could actually be beneficial to Blackboard's finances.
I was once a supporter of the research assessment exercise, but in the long-term it has created an obsession with performance, resulting in many universities no longer appointing faculty on teaching ability.
A recent study to be published in an upcoming issue of Teaching of Psychology Journal, found that students who eat chocolate before filling out a course evaluation may give their professor a higher rating than they otherwise would.
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