{"id":64,"date":"2016-05-18T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/?p=64"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:34:06","slug":"the-essential-ingredient-of-learning-is-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/2016\/05\/18\/the-essential-ingredient-of-learning-is-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The essential ingredient of learning is time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching-\/236479\" target=\"_blank\">click here for text<\/a>) highlights the importance of time in making learning stick.  The author suggests the following techniques:<br \/>\n1.  Assessments should be cumulative &#8211; &#8220;The more often the students have to retrieve, use, and reflect upon the course material, the more opportunities you are giving them to learn it deeply.&#8221;<br \/>\n2.  Refer back to the syllabus often, and make connections between current concepts and previously covered material.<br \/>\n3.  Space out assessments &#8211; &#8220;&#8230;give frequent, spaced opportunities for students to practice and demonstrate their learning.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (click here for text) highlights the importance of time in making learning stick. The author suggests the following techniques: 1. Assessments should be cumulative &#8211; &#8220;The more often the students have to retrieve, use, and reflect upon the course material, the more opportunities you are giving&#8230; <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/2016\/05\/18\/the-essential-ingredient-of-learning-is-time\/\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/stillmanfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}