DePaul University Teaching Commons

02/07/2020

"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."

Daniel Stanford provides 7 strategies for mentoring students based on the "teachable moments" and mentoring practices in RuPaul's Drag Race and Project Runway.

12/11/2019

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

Textbooks are too expensive.

11/06/2019

09/10/2019

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

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.

07/03/2019

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.…

05/22/2019

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

05/17/2019

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

01/08/2019

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

Profs. Joseph Ferrari and Leonard Jason discuss the differences and similarities of their stories coming from two different backgrounds.

01/04/2019

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

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…

12/24/2018

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.

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.

10/26/2018

Teaching in Today's Political Climate