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 ...

Howe Writing Across the Curriculum recently partnered with consultants in the Howe Writing Center to present a series of workshops on Assignment Design, featuring real-time feedback from our student ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are AI resistant assignments possible? AI’s rapid evolution calls into questions how we can use students' work to accurately represent their learning. In this thought exercise, you'll embark on a ...

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 ...

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 ...