When the first participation question popped up on the first day of a higher-level University of Iowa STEM class, I raised my hand, looked around, and waited for an undergraduate learning assistant so ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Peer support can be a critical service to struggling students. The learning assistant program at ...

Learning Assistants lead a molecular biology group study session. Jenn Tucci ’23 has always been passionate about helping others. She’s given back by volunteering at community cleanup events, ...

Imagine you’re an incoming college freshman. You walk into your introductory chemistry class and there are 200 other students in the room. You see the instructor, but they’re way down at the front of ...

When universities and colleges nationwide announced that their classes were going remote as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the Learning Assistant Program at the University of Colorado Boulder began ...

Jeffrey Hunt, M.A., MBA presenting the University of New Haven’s Learning Assistant mentor program. In the Fall of 2022, I posed a question to hundreds of attendees at the International Learning ...

After launching a learning assistant program last year to help professors teach online during the pandemic, the Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching (BCLT) has expanded the program this year.

Dr. Greg Feiden and Dr. Sarah Formica, in background, teach the pedagogy class to their Learning Assistants (LA) on Tuesday nights. The pedagogy class instructs the LAs how to teach physics. The LA ...