In higher education, particularly with my graduate students, students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking holistically at the ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

With the rapid growth of distance learning technologies over the past decade, education has become available to more students than ever. More than 6.3 million American students took at least one ...

Signature assignments are an embedded assessment strategy in which a common assignment is given to students in several different courses, sections, or co-curricular experiences. This assignment should ...

Emphasize sharing of ideas, synthesis, and critical, informed reflection; Include student initiative in defining and investigating problems or projects; Have projects that speak to an audience beyond ...

WebCampus makes it easy for students to submit their work to you in one central online location and makes it easy for instructors to manage submissions and provide feedback and grades. Most ...

Writing is a valuable educational tool for learning. In the classroom, writing can help students grapple with and understand content more deeply and help students learn disciplinary ways of knowing ...