Visible Learning and What This May Mean in Higher Education Classrooms  • Tory Handford

Motivating Students to Read • Alex Church

Visible Learning and What This May Mean in Higher Education Classrooms  • Tory Handford

In 2009 John Hattie published a ground-breaking meta-analysis that identified what does an effective learning environment in K-12 include? What does it not include? What is the % effect on student learning and well-being of the learning environment component? This meta-analysis is interesting to consider in all learning environments. It is not perfect – but it’s comparative nature makes it better than most of our information about effective learning strategies thus far. We’ll take a look at the research and consider what applies and what that implies in the higher education environment.

Motivating Students to Read • Alex Church
Are your students reading the assigned readings? If not, why? How can we motivate students to read? This talk explores various reading strategies to meet the challenges of student engagement in reading while also encouraging relationship building and accountability.