Originally published on: March 6, 2006 On a grim and dusty Saturday morning, as street sweepers swished dry leaves into the sewers (and no roosters …

The biweekly newsletter of the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo

Originally published on: March 6, 2006 On a grim and dusty Saturday morning, as street sweepers swished dry leaves into the sewers (and no roosters …

Originally published on: May 9, 2006 In “Multiple Intelligences: What It Is and Why It’s Vital Today” (New Chalk Talk, Volume 5, Issue 10), we took …

Originally published on: December 7, 2004 “Studies show that when classrooms and lecture halls are designed for the delivery of information, only 5% of that …

Originally published on: November 23, 2004 “Spaces need to allow active learning; anything else is malpractice”(Best Ideas, 2003 PKAL/NITLE Workshop on “Learning Spaces”) Many universities …

Originally published on: October 26, 2004 The immediate answer to the question is a very definite and emphatic NO. In fact the rest of this …

Originally published on: October 12, 2004 “The new learning paradigm…balances the delivery of content with the discovery of knowledge”. (Saunders, 2000). One of the most …