Tag Archives: responsibility

learning styles, individual differences, and responsibility

Recently, I came across this video: “Learn­ing Styles Don’t Exist,” by psy­chol­o­gist Daniel T. Will­ing­ham of the Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia. Will­ing­ham argues that learn­ing style the­o­ries fail to pre­dict the dif­fer­ences in learn­ing that we would expect to see if they were cor­rect (you should go watch, he explains it bet­ter than I could). Learn­ing

plagiarism, ignorance and responsibility

Here’s the third post in a series on cheating/academic dis­hon­esty in col­lege (first post, sec­ond post). A year and a half ago, I taught an intro­duc­tion to phi­los­o­phy course inde­pen­dently. The lec­tures were in per­son, but the tests were online because the class only met once per week and I didn’t want to use up