In the fourth series of our podcast, Birgit Hawelka is talking to Magdalena Abel about the topic of retrieval practice. To summarise briefly, this is a teaching strategy where you use the process of retrieving information in order to fix content in your memory. In this conversation, Magdalena Abel explains the concept in a way that is very easy to understand, and also derives very specific recommendations for its practical use in teaching at university.
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Marking key terms, summarising the gist of the learning material, learning text passages off by heart – these learning strategies (and others) are often applied by students to deal with the subject matter. But…
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Why is learning often so tiring? And why is it sometimes easier and sometimes harder? Cognitive Load Theoryexplains why learning can be a real challenge.…
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The name says it all: a one-pager is a short, one-page summary of a topic or project. The concept originally came from the field of management, where it is used for product presentations or…
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Once again, in the winter semester 2021/22, many universities and colleges had to quickly shift to offering online courses. For the teaching evaluations at the end of the semester, however, there are often no…