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I hate our university’s course management system and have migrated to worpdress for courses. It does have one or two handy features, however, one of which is that students can upload assignments to it directly so you no longer have to collect them in class or ask they be submitted via email.

For a number of reasons not worth going into I dislike using our university course management system (CMS). I therefore decided to follow the suggestions in this great post by Ryan Cordell from the Chronicle’s awesome ProfHacker blog and start using Wordpress as a CMS.

GAINESVILLE, Florida - Arte e ciência nem sempre caminham juntas, mas um projeto novo da Universidade da Florida (UF) desafia esta afirmação. Estudantes do Instituto de Ciências Agrícolas e da Vida (IFAS) recentemente trabalharam em conjunto com o Museu de Arte Samuel P.

We like using Wikipedia in courses so much we published a paper in TREE about the experience; it includes a helpful week-by-week guide to the assignment. Here are a few other resources that may be useful if you are interested in including the editing or writing of Wikipedia entries in your courses.

Last semester I taught my course in tropical ecology and conservation with John Blake. The class is for undergrads, but we also allow graduate students from the social sciences and humanities to take it to complete their requirements for the Tropical Conservation and Development Program As part of the course, we always ask them to do a group project, and this year we had the opportunity to help Dr.