Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour presents at Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning’s 2013 Workshops on College Teaching

Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour, Ph.D., presented a talk titled “Why You Should be Making Things Harder for Your Students: Enhancing Classroom Learning Through the Introduction of Desirable Difficulties" at the 2013 Workshops on College Teaching, organized by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of New Hampshire.

Her presentation, which examined methods and strategies for effectively introducing desirable difficulties in the classroom, included a discussion of different cognitive principles as they apply to learning and the ways in which standard teaching methods can be modified to encourage a deeper and more meaningful processing of material.

The 2013 Workshops on College Teaching are designed to provide attendees with a best-practice “toolkit” for creating learning conditions that fuel deeper processing and, thus, long-term retention.
 

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