A faculty member recently asked us if we could work with her in finding a resource for conferences concerning higher education. During our search, we cam across Conferencealerts.com, which we thought could be helpful for many faculty members and TAs. Conferencealerts.com is a huge website dedicated to marketing higher education conferences across all disciplines and […]
Continue Reading April 28th, 2009
We have written a few postings that mentioned some of the debate behind the academic use (or non-use) of online websites for research or as a teaching resource in higher education. While many academics openly discourage the use of websites like Wikipedia or the process of “Google’ing” a topic for research, there are some scholars […]
Continue Reading April 15th, 2009
David Albrecht, associate professor of Accounting and Management Information Systems, presented last week on “Why All Professors Should Blog.” He provided examples and led discussion about: Why you should blog, What you should blog about, and How to get started. A blog post he wrote a few months ago nicely summarizes his main arguments. Now it’s your turn… […]
Continue Reading 1 comment April 13th, 2009
The newest CTL “Communicating for Learners” newsletter has just been released. In the latest newsletter you can find the interesting “What If…” article concerning the University Learning Outcomes and how they can apply in classrooms here at BGSU. There is also a thought-provoking article titled, “Brain Rules for Learning” that describes John Medina’s twelve famous Brain Rules. In […]
Continue Reading April 7th, 2009
Instructors can have a less than easy time trying to implement teaching strategies that are outside of certain methods, like lecturing. There are other effective alternatives to lecturing, however. One of these alternatives is group learning, which has its merits. Team-Based Learning is also one of these alternatives that is growing in momentum and offers […]
Continue Reading April 3rd, 2009
