Time for Class: Undergraduates’ and Lecturers’ Perceptions on Why Undergraduates Want to Teach

Why Undergraduates Enroll in MOOCs?

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer a great opportunity for learners to enjoy learning despite their location or timing. Nevertheless, motives vary between each student and another. In this workshop paper, we are delighted to open discussions on why undergraduates may enroll in their university’s MOOCs? Are they looking for ECTS points? Or do they want to build a stronger background in th...

Pharmacology – Prep Manual for Undergraduates

Teaching statistics to medical undergraduates using interactive and participatory sessions

Introduction: In India, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficultto understand. Often, it is taught just before final assessment examinationusing didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus onapplication. Hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teachingbiostatistics to medical undergraduate.Methods: The sessions were delivered by a fa...

Cuckoo Hashing for Undergraduates

This lecture note presents and analyses two simple hashing algorithms: “Hashing with Chaining”, and “Cuckoo Hashing”. The analysis uses only very basic (and intuitively understandable) concepts of probability theory, and is meant to be accessible even for undergraduates taking their first algorithms course.

Teaching Undergraduates About LGBTQ Identities, Families, and Intersectionality: Teaching Undergraduates

Teaching undergraduate students about LGBTQ identities and family issues presents several challenges, or “opportunities,” which we address within personal, ecological, and historical contexts. We begin by articulating our positionality as scholars and instructors, and the feminist intersectional and queer lens that guides our research and pedagogy. We organize our presentation of contemporary t...