Many instructors approach assignment design with a "product" focus—that is to say, the choices they make about their assignments (frequency; genre; difficulty; grading scheme; etc.) are oriented ...

University of Houston architecture students Matthew Giardina and Vivi Nguyen needed a box to carry all their design tools, but they didn't want to put their precious pencils, pens and X-Acto knives in ...

Threshold concepts are the core knowledge and disciplinary capabilities that students must successfully transition through to make progress in their majors. The threshold concepts (TC) framework is ...

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 ...

Automotive News spoke to designers on the challenges and inspiration behind autonomous design. View this in a new tab. For as long as there have been automobiles, vehicle interiors have been designed ...

Dalhousie’s Academic Integrity Working Group has identified two core considerations to diminish student cheating. Designing courses (and assignments) that reduce pressures and other situations that ...

MARANELLO, Italy --Students at four of the world's best-known design schools have been given a dream assignment: develop ideas for future Ferrari models. "It is the first time Ferrari has ever held ...

If you played Chutes and Ladders as a kid, you probably recall the frustration: There you are, just a few squares away from winning it all, when the wrong roll of the dice sends you sliding back to ...