Ungrading

Susan Blum shares about ungrading on episode 350 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Genuine education isn’t simply this points game.
-Susan Blum

If the learning is interesting, people will do it.
-Susan Blum

Think about your students as people who are learning things for purposes. If they are not learning for a grade, why else are they learning?
-Susan Blum

The goal is learning. Learning can be for the purpose of use or interest.

-Susan Blum

• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), by Susan D. Blum
• Alfie Cohen
• Human Synergistics Ethical Challenge
• I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College, by Susan Blum*
• Universal Design for Learning
• Derek Bruff shares about times for telling on his blog
• Schwartz, Daniel L. and Bransford, John D.(1998)’A Time For Telling’