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I'm Wayland Chau and welcome to The Reflective Prof! I hope to share my thoughts and insights on teaching undergraduate students. I am a professor of business law at the Pilon School of Business at Sheridan College. Most of my students are in the Bachelor of Business Administration degree program. I strive to facilitate active learning experiences for my students, using both new online technologies and traditional methods.
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Flipped Classrooms at Wharton
Further to my post about my plans to flip my classroom, I read with interest a recent Business Week article which mentioned that professors at Wharton Business School are using their online course materials to flip their face-to-face MBA classes. … Continue reading
Syllabus
Originally posted on Tabula Candida:
It’s on the syllabus, right between the lyrics for the official college song and the dean’s sugar cookie recipe.
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The Flipped Classroom
In a few weeks, I am going to “flip” one of my classrooms. It will not involve any heavy lifting of furniture, but it will involve turning my students’ learning experience upside down. In a traditional classroom, the teacher/professor teaches … Continue reading
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Part 2 – A Few More New Things I Am Trying
I will be trying a couple of more new things this school year. One of them can be said to be “new tech” and the other can be called “old school”. The New Tech Idea: Socrative Ironically, my new tech … Continue reading
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Spring in the Fall: New things I am trying this school year (Part 1)
As an educator, fall always feels like spring to me. It is a time of new beginnings, renewal, optimism and endless possibilities. Every new semester is a clean slate with new students and new challenges – even if it is … Continue reading
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Welcome to The Reflective Prof!
Welcome to my new blog! As a college professor, I am always thinking of ways of helping my students learn and succeed. How can I get my students more engaged? How can I get them actively learning in my classroom? … Continue reading
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