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HIGHER ED TEACHING STRATEGIES FROM MAGNA PUBLICATIONS

The Benefits of Using Students as Guest Speakers

Last year I received a grant to support bringing guest scholars to my class. The idea was to find students with some expertise relevant to my courses and invite them to present in class, thereby giving the class a perspective on the material that I couldn’t provide. The grant enabled me to pay the guest scholars a stipend for their work. I had both the guest scholars and students complete questionnaires after these visits to class.

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