Everything That FITS is an ongoing podcast for the DePaul community and the world at large, sponsored by DePaul University’s Faculty Instructional Technology Services department. Tune in for tips, tricks and useful information to help you teach smarter every day.
A vacation to Quebec turns into an illustrative exercise in immersion learning theory. What can we as educators take away from an experience like this and bring to our own (non-foreign language) teaching?
Things just aren't the way they used to be. Electronic aids have supplemented or even replaced many of our old tried-and-true methods of problem solving. But are these new tools benefiting our students, or are they eliminating critical cognitive processes in favor of plug and chug number crunching? Josh Lund explores this ever-growing phenomenon and makes a case for "going analog."
An interview with College of Communication faculty member Erik Peterson on the challenges of taking a face-to-face course online.