Very often showing students how to work through a problem will help them learn. Similarly, many faculty are most comfortable teaching when able to stand at a board and diagram solutions. On the other hand, each student learns at his or her own pace. In the past, this required compromise. No longer. CITL has added […]
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In an ideal world, we’d be guaranteed that academia could exist without the influence of any type of bias and that merit alone would be the basis of evaluation. It’s an unfortunate reality that bias does exist. (Articles like this one from The Chronicle have delved deeper into the debate surrounding the notion of unconscious […]
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A couple of recent news articles suggest the growing role of drones in our lives and scholarship. From the New York Times we learned that a lot of people received drones for holiday gifts–about 1.2 million in the US alone. But it seemed that a lot of dads lack any skill in flying them. The […]
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Welcome to the website for UMaine’s new Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. How did a center of innovation in teaching and learning happen at UMaine? In the fall of 2015, the Provost appointed a task force, chaired by Associate Provosts Monique LaRocque and Jeff St. John, to develop a plan to provide more […]
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