When Students Won't Do the Reading

By John Warner. Is there a more common lament among college instructors than, “Why won’t students just do the reading?”
It’s an important/difficult question. When I wrote last week about the problem of “boredom,” in the comments, a number of people remarked that one of the reasons they believe students say they are “bored” in class is because students often haven’t done the reading, and therefore lack context for whatever discussion is happening in front of them. No doubt this is true. Read more...