Author Archives: jchoigt

About jchoigt

I'm an Associate Professor in the School of Biology at Georgia Tech, and Faculty Coordinator of the Professional MS Bioinformatics degree program.

Assessing the flipped classroom

Posted on March 25, 2013

At Pearson’s 10th Biology Leadership Conference, I’ve been amazed and impressed by how many instructors have either flipped their intro biology class, or are seriously contemplating it. There was so much interest that over 30 instructors voluntarily gave up one hour … Continue reading →

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Veronica Yan: More on Learning and Desirable Difficulties

Posted on February 23, 2013

Veronica Yan, a PhD student in the Bjork cognitive psychology lab at UCLA, gave a talk tonight at Pearson’s Mastering Leadership Conference about different study practices and student learning. I heard Robert Bjork talk about “desirable difficulties” a couple of … Continue reading →

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2012 in review

Posted on December 30, 2012

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. This blog had 19,000 views in 2012. Click here to see the complete report.

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Flipping a large Intro Bio class – round 2

Posted on October 5, 2012

After reviewing results and student responses to my first iteration of flipping my large Intro Biological Principles class last fall, I made a few revisions for this go-round. The #1 student complaint from last fall was that watching the 30+ … Continue reading →

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What might geology be telling us about the fossil record?

Posted on September 26, 2012

One of the themes of our evolution module is that the geosphere and biosphere co-evolved throughout Earth history. Evolution of life profoundly affected the geochemistry of the planet, and changing geological conditions in turn repeatedly stirred the pot of evolution. … Continue reading →

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