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Points of Interest
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Lendol Calder | Jan 12, 2018
One of the most widely used strategies to increase participation in class discussions is an activity called Think/Pair/Share. The technique is effecti... -
Never Too Far Away
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Susan Rhoades Neel | Jan 12, 2018
Student engagement is a particularly difficult challenge in history courses offered through Utah State University (USU)’s interactive video conferenci... -
A Dot Matrix
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Charles S. Young | Jan 12, 2018
Napoleon admired the dangerous chances soldiers took for bits of ribbon. I get students to take risks for dots on paper.Large survey courses are the h... -
Are We Giving Students Something Worthwhile to Talk About?
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David A. Gerber | Jan 12, 2018
I struggled for years to stimulate classroom discussion in undergraduate courses, and mostly was unsuccessful. I alternately blamed the students and t...
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Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt | Jan 12, 2018
We’ve all been there. Our syllabus specifies that a percentage of the course grade will be based on ... -
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Thinking about democracy requires confronting contradictions. What makes a political system "democra... -
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Let us imagine that 35 years from now, in about the year 2050, China is some kind of constitutional ... -
The United States: Self-Taught Activism
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In an era when many Americans complain that the political system is not responsive, we might take in... -
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Growing up in a democracy is an intimate experience that grows with you, and along the way you learn...
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