Actively Learning to Teach

One university instructor's musings about how to effectively teach in higher education.

Tuesday, 1 August 2023

Flipped classroom effectiveness impacted by attendance

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This is an interesting article: Buhl-Wiggers, J., la Cour, L. & Kjærgaard, A.L. Insights from a randomized controlled trial of flipped c...
Tuesday, 7 June 2022

2nd-year biochemistry in winter 2021

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Introduction This is the fifth and final instalment of my reflections on my experience with online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic of ...
Friday, 3 June 2022

confusing the teaching strategy with the professor and course content

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At the Augustana Campus, a number of us have been using team-based learning (TBL) for a number of years and it is interesting how different ...
Thursday, 2 June 2022

meeting student resistance to learning with resilience

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The interview with Michael Ungar (Bethune 2019) and Ungar's Globe and Mail article (2019) have made me rethink this issue of resistanc...
Tuesday, 24 May 2022

2nd year molecular cell biology in fall 2020

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Introduction This is my fourth reflection on my experience with online teaching during the pandemic of the 2020/21 academic year. This refle...
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Neil Haave
Neil Haave (PhD, University of British Columbia) has been teaching cell biology and biochemistry at the Augustana Campus since 1990 where he served as Chair of Science and Associate Dean. In addition, he served as Associate Director of the University of Alberta's Centre for Teaching and Learning from 2018-2020. Neil is a recipient of the Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, a McCalla Professorship and Augustana's Teaching Leadership Award and Teaching Faculty Award for the Support of Information Literacy. His research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) with publications on biology curricula, e-portfolios, undergraduate research, and learning philosophies. His involvement with SoTL has included editing Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, co-chairing the Festival of Teaching steering committee, and chairing the Teaching Professor Conference Advisory Board. Neil uses the evidence-based approach of team-based learning in most of his courses.
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