Please note that 30% of your grade will be based on class participation. The class is a walkthrough of many issues related to Internet regulation, structured as class discussions of readings by many ...

I first began writing for The Chronicle in the fall of 1999, in a series describing my search for a tenure-track job. Back then, readers sent me actual, physical letters, although it wasn’t long ...

When I first started teaching, my attitude toward students who remained silent in discussion classes could be summed up with the words of Bernard Hopkins, the fistic sage of Philadelphia: “Bernard ...

Faculty must report academic participation when assigning an “F” grade. Faculty will select from three failure options that show how a student participated in class(es). Students receiving a failing ...

Staying motivated in class can feel challenging now that the spring semester is well underway. If you’ve fallen behind on your schoolwork, you still have time to get back on track. You can incorporate ...

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University ...

In my last blog entry I discussed calling on students who might be reticent to talk in class. That got me wondering about how to handle students who want to talk too much. We have ethical obligations ...

This class is designed to be an essentially participatory endeavor. Collectively we know more than we do individually, and by engaging the subject matter interactively, we'll learn the material better ...