Feb 2, 20154 minIt Takes a Village to Launch a Grant ProposalBonnie Farley-Lucas, PhD Southern Connecticut State University Nationwide, faculty are under increasing pressure to obtain external fund...
Jan 15, 20153 minKeeping it Real: Using Unconventional Real-World Examples to Explain ConceptsKeith Hohn, PhD Professor, Chemical Engineering - Kansas State University Engineering educators are dedicated to providing their students...
Jan 1, 20154 minA New Year’s Teaching ResolutionTodd Zakrajsek, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill People make New Year’s Resolutions to address any number of areas in whi...
Dec 15, 20144 minThe Reluctant LearnerAmy Gross, PhD We’ve all been there – either as a student or as a teacher. That class where we believe we are just not good at that desp...
Dec 1, 20143 minActive Processing Using “Quizzes-on-the-Go”Mick Charney Associate Professor, Architecture - Kansas State University You may have noticed a growing predilection among young people t...
Nov 14, 20145 minUsing a Participation Rubric: A Case for Fairness and LearningJohanna Inman Assistant Director, Teaching & Learning Center - Temple University In my first year of teaching after graduate school I rec...
Nov 1, 20143 minOne of My Favorite Things: Classroom Assessment TechniquesAmy Gross, PhD While it may not be the book I reach for before bed or in a thunderstorm (perhaps because there are no vampire or superna...
Oct 15, 20144 minStudent Voice as a Delivery MethodCarl S. Moore, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Research Academy for Integrated Learning, Division for Learning Resources - University of the ...
Oct 1, 20143 minChallenging our Assumptions: Getting Students to ReadAmy Gross, Ph.D. Have you ever felt frustrated when your students don’t come to class prepared? A frequent complaint I have heard from f...
Sep 1, 20147 minMusic as a Mechanism to Engage StudentsMick Charney Associate Professor, Architecture - Kansas State University David Whitt Professor, Communication - Nebraska Wesleyan Univers...
Aug 15, 20144 minMeeting Your Students as Learners: An Activity for the First Day of ClassSal Meyers Director of Faculty Development, Professor of Psychology - Simpson College Brian C. Smith Division Chair, Professor of Psychol...
Aug 1, 20144 minFilling in the Gaps: Emphasizing Thinking About One’s Own ThinkingTamara Rosier, Ph.D. Cornerstone University As a child, I sang along with a Kenny Roger’s country song bemoaning the fact that a wife le...
Jul 15, 20142 minStanding the Test of Time and Technology: 7 Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate EducationAmy Gross, PhD In 1987 Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson published a manuscript summarizing what they believed the research told ...
Jun 4, 20145 minTeaching Students How to Fish: The Next Step for Learning-Centered TeachingCarl S. Moore, PhD Assistant Director, Teaching and Learning Center, Adjunct Assistant Professor- Temple University You may be aware of t...
May 16, 20143 minConsumer to CreatorRoger McHaney Professor, Department of Management,University Distinguished Teaching Scholar - Kansas State University Teaching is the pro...
May 4, 20143 minLearning Lessons for My SonAmy Gross, PhD One of the complaints that I seem to hear in one form or another on most college and university campuses is that many stu...
Apr 16, 20142 minThere is No ‘D’ in Stonehenge: Using “Word Clouds” to Reveal (and Dispel) Student Misconceptions