teaching and learning

PULLMAN, Wash. – Applications and nominations for the 2015 Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching will be accepted through March 25.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Members of the Teaching Academy are available to meet with those who teach at Washington State University to mentor and help with instruction-related endeavors and concerns.

By Richard H. Miller, Global Campus PULLMAN, Wash. – PowerPoint presentations divide information into bullet points. “Concept maps” use the opposite approach: They require students to connect information – and that takes them to what assistant professor Olusola Adesope calls “a higher level of cognitive process.”

By Beverly Makhani, Office of Undergraduate Education And Will Ferguson, College of Arts & Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Twenty-five educators with a passion to improve teaching and learning at Washington State University were inducted into the WSU Teaching Academy this month.

By Richard H. Miller, Global Campus PULLMAN, Wash. – Unless you’ve got a Learjet or a set of gills, virtual worlds can be preferable to reality, presenters said Monday at a faculty-led workshop on student success.

By Madison Rosenbaum, WSU Tri-Cities student intern RICHLAND, Wash. – A professor at Washington State University Tri-Cities hopes to better engage freshmen by integrating local, Hanford history into a required core class this fall.

By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Nothing wrong with mixing a little business and pleasure; not when it helps children.

By Kate Wilhite, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – As a freshman, Ciara Dahm brought her dresser to Washington State University to hold T-shirts, socks and sweaters – not chickens, worms and mushrooms.

By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – For a group of WSU sport management students, the fastest way to help children might just be tossing a baseball.

By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Francene Watson recently was named the new director for the Clearinghouse on Native Teaching & Learning at Washington State University. She is working with others to develop new goals and revitalize the mission and services offered.