General teaching

An excellent summary of recent findings on teaching and learning. A key finding: let your students struggle a bit to find the answers themselves. Challenging learning is deeper learning. Frequent, formative, low-stakes, cumulative quizzing is one of the best ways to structure most courses. Active recall is an essential but often neglected part of learning by both students and teachers.  Many other sometimes counter-intuitive tips that can immediately be applied to teaching and learning can be found.

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