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How to Set Up and Run an Undergraduate Research Lab
APS Fellow Julia Strand offers resources and recommendations to run a productive research lab.
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Useful Feedback, More Than Praise, Helps Students Flourish
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” This proverb has become a cliché, but it remains a useful
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Why the COVID-19 Pandemic Could Lead to Overdue Change in Academia
After an absolutely devastating year, academic scientists in some parts of the world are beginning to reopen their labs and see their colleagues in person. As the global vaccination campaign continues, scientists elsewhere will begin
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Student Notebook: Five Tips for Working with Teaching Assistants in Online Classes
Sarah C. Turner suggests it’s best to follow the golden rule: Treat your TA’s time as you would your own.
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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
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How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging
Consider a student in an introductory math class — let’s call him Alex. Alex had some unpleasant experiences with math in high school. When he got to college, he tested into a math course below
