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@MISC{_canimprove,
author = {},
title = {Can Improve Teaching},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT We marshal discoveries about human behavior and learning from social science research and show how these can be used to improve teaching and learning. The discoveries are easily stated as three social science generalizations: (1) social connections motivate, (2) teaching teaches the teacher, and (3) instant feedback improves learning. We show how to apply these generalizations via innovations in modern information technology inside, outside, and across university classrooms. We also give concrete examples of these ideas from innovations we have experimented with in our own teaching. Humans have theorized about how to teach for thousands of years and update the substance of what we teach almost every year. Yet generations have passed without any major improvements in the procedures and style of teaching in our classrooms. If your great-great-great-grandparents went to college, they probably sat in a classroom with all the other students facing forward, trying to look attentive, while the professor professed. If
