Author Archives: sgreenla

I believe profoundly in what I am about to write. I am not naive about the difficulties involved, but neither do I think we can assume the problem away, as I believe is common in higher education today. The primary … Continue reading →

I have complained many times about poor airline experiences so it seems only right that I call attention to an unusually good experience.  I missed my flight home due to my mistake.  An amazingly helpful gate agent in Indianapolis bailed … Continue reading →

Last fall, I adopted OpenStax’ Principles of Macro text for my course of the same name. I have blogged earlier about the creation of that text. After the semester, I conducted a statistical analysis of student learning in the course … Continue reading →

I have a really long draft of a post on the project I’ve been working on with Lumen Learning for much of the last year, but it’s not polished yet <jk> so let me just make a small point about … Continue reading →

Over the last year, my approach to blogging has been to refine my thinking until I get it just right before posting.  You should see all the drafts I have!  I’m going to try something different here that some brighter … Continue reading →

The seminar has finished a first attempt at fleshing out the research question we will investigate.  We then chose books for small groups to acquire and read prior to reporting out to the class.  For the last week or so, … Continue reading →

Last summer I attended the second annual UMW Game Camp, at which interested faculty were introduced to the variety of ways that gaming culture and practices could be incorporated into one’s teaching.  Game Camp was jointly led by Mary Kayler, … Continue reading →

I believe that one of the highest forms of teaching occurs through modelling disciplinary practice, ideally when students forget that you are teaching.  This is the first week for our Spring semester and I am teaching my senior seminar in international finance.  … Continue reading →

Last semester I co-taught an Honors First Year seminar with my colleague Bob Rycroft.  Our FSEMs are designed to give FY students the kind of intimate academic experience that is more commonly associated with upper level seminars.  The FSEMS are … Continue reading →