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I Had to Teach My NYU Psych Class to 360 Students From a Cell Phone While Trapped In an Elevator With My Kids. It Went Surprisingly Well.
On September 23, I had to teach my afternoon Introduction to Psychology class today to over 300 students from my cell phone while I was trapped in my apartment building elevator with my two young
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Working Around the Distance
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a new set of practices has begun to take shape in how psychological scientists teach and conduct research. A global survey of the field reveals the scope of the impact, along with strategies being used to overcome the considerable challenges associated with moving research and learning from in-person laboratory settings and classrooms to online platforms.
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Teaching: Benefits of Education / Rewards of Regret
Education Matters: Making the Mind’s Muscles by David G. Myers. Reaping the Rewards of Regret by C. Nathan DeWall.
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Back Page: Building a Better Statistics Class
Ji Son, a professor of cognitive psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, uncovers data-based methods for helping students understand statistics more deeply.
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Online but Fully Engaged: APS Microgrants Fund Innovative Teaching Projects
One project will compare the effectiveness of two options for asynchronous online courses: students can participate via written responses or short video responses. Another uses livestreaming from head-mounted cameras to facilitate blended lab collaboration.
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Best Way to Stop Cheating in Online Courses? ‘Teach Better’
Students cheat more in online courses — right? Most professors certainly think so. Sixty percent of the nearly 2,000 respondents to Inside Higher Ed‘s 2019 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology last fall said they believed academic
