I’ve been pursuing higher education for a while now, so it’s safe to say that I’ve had my fair share of group assignments throughout my time at community college and university. And without a doubt, I ...

Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...

There are many benefits in group assignments, here are five of them. In many Nigerian universities, you can have two to three group assignments in one week. Ask a Nigerian undergraduate. Many students ...

In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...

Many instructors approach assignment design with a "product" focus—that is to say, the choices they make about their assignments (frequency; genre; difficulty; grading scheme; etc.) are oriented ...

Dalhousie’s Academic Integrity Working Group has identified two core considerations to diminish student cheating. Designing courses (and assignments) that reduce pressures and other situations that ...