Ungrading

Teaching in Higher Ed

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

Quotes from the episode

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

Resources

• 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’