The Power of Storytelling: Why Stories Stick
Why Do Stories Stick? You may remember sitting through training sessions, lectures, or presentations packed with useful information only to forget most of it by the next day. But tell us a story and something different happens. We do not just remember information, we remember experiences. Like the overwhelmed first-year teacher trying to manage a […]
Finding the Rhythm of your Online Course
When faculty think about course design, they naturally focus first on content: readings, lectures, discussions, and assignments. These are, of course, the foundation of any learning experience. However, the underlying course structure is a sometimes neglected but deeply important consideration as well. Before students can engage meaningfully with ideas, they have to understand how the […]
Reimagining Technology as a Creative Partner in Teaching and Learning
When integrated intentionally, technology expands possibility — supporting creativity, flexibility, access, and meaningful learning experiences across modalities. Beyond Efficiency: Technology as Possibility Technology has become such a familiar part of teaching that it’s often discussed in terms of tools, platforms, or requirements. But when we step back, technology offers something far more powerful than efficiency […]
Level Up Your Classroom: The Low-Stakes Guide to Gamification
Gamification brings game‑design principles into course design to boost student engagement, motivation, and persistence. By weaving in elements like progression and meaningful rewards, you can transform traditional course structures into experiences that feel more energizing. This post highlights a few simple strategies you can use to make your course more enjoyable for students. Gamification doesn’t […]
Instructional Illusions
In classrooms worldwide, we often confuse busyness with learning, novelty with effectiveness, and engagement with deep understanding. In Instructional Illusions, Kirschner, Hendrick and Heal (2025) pull back the curtain on ten pervasive but misleading assumptions about teaching and learning—what look like good practices on the surface, but which cognitive science shows are often counterproductive. This […]
Teaching Gen Z: Adapting Your Approach to Empower Modern Learners
University faculty across the globe are facing a new teaching challenge—and opportunity—in the form of Generation Z. Born roughly between 1995 and 2012, these students have never known a world without high-speed internet or smartphones. They bring with them a distinct set of preferences, expectations, and needs that differ markedly from previous generations of learners. […]
