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"Well-designed competition shows like The Voice, Project Runway, and RuPaul’s Drag Race all have their share of drama, conflict, and witty quips, but they’re also packed with “teachable moments,” thanks to their emphasis on mentorship."

What Reality TV Taught Me About Effective Student Mentoring | IDDblog: Instructional Design Tips, Advice, & Trends for Online & Distance Learning | Educational Technology and Online Course Design Help Daniel Stanford provides 7 strategies for mentoring students based on the "teachable moments" and mentoring practices in RuPaul's Drag Race and Project Runway.

New Year's Goal: Be mindful about how the costs of the textbooks we assign our students and look at lower-cost alternatives such as

Opinion | How Professors Help Rip Off Students Textbooks are too expensive.

"Students who engage in active learning learn more -- but feel like they learn less -- than peers in more lecture-oriented classrooms."

Study: How smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking they've learned more than they have A study says smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking they've learned more than they actually have -- potentially at the expense of active learning.

3 Quick Ways to Increase Student Engagement in Your Lectures Studies have shown that student participation in lectures leads to students having greater motivation in the classroom, becoming better critical thinkers, and ultimately, learning more effectively.…

Photos from the 2019 Teaching and Learning Conference at DePaul University.

Registration has started at our annual Teaching and Learning conference! We hope to see you all here today!

Did you get a chance to watch our latest story? Listen to Profs. Joe Ferrari and Leonard Jason recount their journeys into academia.

Joseph Ferrari & Leonard Jason | #firstGen Story Project Profs. Joseph Ferrari and Leonard Jason discuss the differences and similarities of their stories coming from two different backgrounds.

How has China's growth over the past decade impacted their culture? China is now a vision of the future, read more here.

Imagining the Future with China: A Report of a Study Abroad Course Riding on a train that whistled 217 miles per hour, sitting in a car that solely relied on solar power, wandering in a bookstore that had no cashiers on site, and viewing a trading system without c…

This would be fun to give to students studying research methods and see how long it takes for them to point out the study's flaws.

Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch A study found parachutes were no more effective than backpacks in preventing harm to people jumping from aircraft. The researchers' tongue-in-cheek experiment makes a deeper point about science.

Teaching in Today's Political Climate