Student-teacher conferencing is an integral component of university-level writing instruction and a crucial element in the development of a student writer. The individualized conferencing session not only supplements traditional classroom activities but is the principal mode of mentoring and learning once a class has ended. While the in-person format is the most familiar practice for the writin...

Discussion boards provide instructors a unique opportunity to extend their classrooms into cyberspace. This article offers some observations about student behavior in these online forums and practical suggestions for the instructor, including the creation of rules and structure for the online environment, factors influencing student participation, and strategies for facilitating discussion. Cri...

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Today we will talk about some applications of decoupling. The first application is Strichartz inequality on tori. Let T d = R/Z. For a lattice Λ ⊂ R, let TΛ = R/Λ. For instance, we may take the rectangle [0, λ1]× ...× [0, λd] and identify opposite edges. Our goal is to study the initial value problem for Schrodinger’s equation. That is, let u(x, t) : R×R→ C (or T ×R→ C or TΛ×R→ C), where x ∈ R,...

At its simplest a course management system is a tool that allows an instructor to post information on the web without that instructor having to know or understand HTML or other computer languages. A more complete definition of a CMS is that it provides an instructor with a set of tools and a framework that allows the relatively easy creation of online course content and the subsequently teachin...

As costs of higher education soar and many universities face uncertain funding models, institutional pressures have increased to improve instructor efficiency. At the same time, U.S. industry leaders and leading educators have called for improvements in engineering education based on more interactive, hands-on student learning experiences. Although many efforts have been made to take advantage ...

We collected data at a large, very selective public university on what math and science instructors felt was the biggest barrier to their students’ learning. We also determined the extent of each instructor’s use of research-based effective teaching methods. Instructors using fewer effective methods were more likely to say the greatest barrier to student learning was the internal deficiencies o...