The four things that every professor can do "THIS WEEK" to make each course more student-friendly include:
1. Ensure that all readings, articles, presentations and videos (all course material) are available in the course management system.
2. "Create a weekly reading assessment that asks students to formulate or discuss the most important things you wanted them to get out the this week's articles."
3. "Make your syllabus a living document and let students know about changes via class emails - it will put your class in the forefront of their minds."
4. "Use technology to help students engage with one another - create peer review groups for papers or discussion groups online."
Lucretia Witte's research on Technology and Teaching:
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/a_student_s_views
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