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Assessing Assessment

Inside Higher Ed’s article “Assessing Assessment” launches its discussion by stating that assessment and accountability movements are “alive and well,” and that colleges who think they can ignore them are “misguided.” In an effort to provide an overview or guide of assessment practices, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes and the Alliance for New Leadership […]

Continue Reading February 19th, 2009

Vella’s 12 Adult Learning Principles

In recent years Jane Vella has become a renowned and respected figure in the adult teaching field.  Vella’s 12 Principles for Adult Learners, spelled out in her known book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults, are highly regarded in adult education.  Below are Vella’s 12 Principles. * Needs […]

Continue Reading February 17th, 2009

3rd Annual BGSU Teaching & Learning Fair Slideshow

Here are just a few pictures from the Third Annual BGSU Teaching and Learning Fair, held on Friday, February 6, 2009 in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Barbara Millis, from the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Teaching and Learning Center, presented the keynote, Persisting with Passion: A Summary in Break-throughs in Teaching and Learning. For more information on […]

Continue Reading February 9th, 2009

Learning Students’ Names

A recent string of ideas came across the Lilly Conference on College Teaching listserv recently. Here is a sampling of some ideas you can try in your large lecture class to remember students’ names: From L. Dee Fink (author of a great book – Creating Significant Learning Experiences): …(L)earning names is extremely helpful but challenging […]

Continue Reading January 20th, 2009

Eric Mazur: “Farewell, Lecture?”

Lecture, arguably, is the most common method of teaching in higher education. It is not uncommon to walk into any classroom and find students can be busy trying to keep notes on what their instructor is saying. In the latest issue of Science, Eric Mazur, a physics professor at Harvard University, offers his own perspective on […]

Continue Reading January 6th, 2009

Effective Group Projects

Collaborative skills are essential skills that students must learn in order to succeed in their chosen fields.  How can we teach students collaborative skills? Through group projects. While most students grumble at the announcement of group work, there are ways to make group work more rewarding and effective. In an article titled “Collaborative peer evaluation: […]

Continue Reading 1 comment November 7th, 2008

Different Way of Grading Papers

Michael Nelson is a political science professor at Rhodes College. As a “guest blogger” for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nelson recently wrote a short blog post that shares a different way for instructors to grade papers. Nelson writes that he intends to break a habit that he (and many other instructors) tend to have […]

Continue Reading October 15th, 2008

Reflections: TA Workshop #1

CTL would first like to say thank you for the participants who did come to the workshop. Your input, time and effort are more than appreciated. We’re really looking forward to our next discussion and are planning on seeing all of you again. Here are some of the reflections that we took from our discussion:* […]

Continue Reading 3 comments September 26th, 2008

Motivating "These Kids Today" (Discussion/Workshop Extension)

On Tuesday, Dr. Jodi Haney presented a discussion session at the CTL entitled Motivating “These Kids Today” and challenged participants to consider their role in creating an environment that will encourage and foster students’ motivation to learn. The bottom line she stressed was that: “faculty CANNOT motivate students, as motivation is a personal construct and […]

Continue Reading 3 comments September 25th, 2008

Social Responsibilities in the Classroom

Instructors have long talked about how classrooms should be havens for teaching and learning, not a forum preaching politics or “saving the world.” In teaching a touchy and charged topic like the war in Iraq, Joseph J. Gonzalez reveals how it’s the transformations for students that instructors aid in maturing, which is interesting and a […]

Continue Reading 1 comment September 15th, 2008

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