There are several adjustments that first-year BGSU students must make. Many new students will learn how to manage new responsibilities, make new friends, meet new expectations, and negotiate a number of other new experiences. One of the ways that BGSU works with new students and the adjustments to college life is through the Common Reading […]
Continue Reading August 3rd, 2009
Copyright, author’s rights, and licensing of personal works continue to enter into discussions at all levels of university work. From faculty authorship to students’ creative works available on the Internet, each individual can now specify the conditions for the distribution and use of their works using the Creative Commons. [From the Creative Commons website:] What […]
Continue Reading November 19th, 2008
The Center for Teaching and Learning is sponsoring 13 learning communities (LC) for the 2008-09 academic year. Below are brief updates from four of them, regarding their accomplishments and future plans. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning LC (Facilitated by Jackie Cuneen and Mark Earley)The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning LC read and discussed anthropologist Rebakah […]
Continue Reading October 30th, 2008
You can probably walk by the University Bookstore right now and see how ecstatic parents and students are about having to purchase books for the upcoming semester. In a little under two weeks the lines of happy students will be even longer and more of the grim faces. The bookstore clerks are no strangers to […]
Continue Reading August 13th, 2008
In our most recent Center newsletter we featured a short “Visionary” piece on Maryellen Weimer. Dr. Weimer is the editor of the The Teaching Professor online blog and newsletter, which are dedicated to inspiring “educators committed to creating a better learning environment,” as their website indicates. The staff at The Teaching Professor also have a […]
Continue Reading August 1st, 2008
The following BGSU community members presented last week at the 2008 Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference (ODCE), which is sponsored by the Ohio Learning Network (OLN), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), and OhioLINK. Colleen Boff & Gwen Evans (University Libraries)Hi Tech, High Touch, Low Cost: Library Instructional Tools Across a First Year Experience Program Terry […]
Continue Reading March 10th, 2008
According to a PBS blog post by Andy Carvin, a group of Harvard faculty recently: unanimously adopted a new policy that would allow them to retain the copyright of scholarly research. As a result, students and the public at large could have much greater access to these materials online than ever before. For more information […]
Continue Reading February 14th, 2008
From The Chronicle of Higher Education – Feb. 1, 2008 (Link to article for BGSU community):Blog Comments vs. Peer Review: Which Way Makes a Book Better? (by Jefferey R. Young) “What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers?” Noah Wardrip-Fruin from the University of California […]
Continue Reading February 7th, 2008
“THE isolation of the teacher is a thing of the past. The processes of education have come to be recognized as fundamental and vital in any attempt to improve human conditions and elevate society.” Although this quote may seem to apply to our world today, it was written over 110 years ago by Samuel T. […]
Continue Reading 1 comment January 28th, 2008
