Posts Tagged ‘learning and teaching’
September 25 - Teaching and Learning Scholarship: An Innovative Example
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Articles, Teaching and Learning
As this example illustrates, scholarship doesn’t always have to take the form of articles in refereed journals and sometimes when the scholarship is pedagogical, other formats make very good sense. The case in point is a new program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine that recognizes innovation in the classroom. The thinking was
August 24 - Students’ Conceptions of Teaching and Learning
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Articles, Teaching and Learning
A large study of students enrolled in geography courses at multiple universities in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States looked at their conceptions of geography, teaching, and learning. Each was considered separately. The study employed several methodologies, among them a phenomenographic analysis of responses to several open-ended questions. This qualitative approach
August 22 - Transformational Teaching and Learning
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Articles, Teaching and Learning
The relatively new pedagogical periodical Academy of Management Learning & Education has a regular feature I very much enjoy and wish was part of more of the discipline-based periodicals on teaching and learning. Noted teachers and scholars in the discipline are interviewed and asked questions about teaching, learning and education. Besides being well edited and
August 14 - A Viable Literature for College Teaching and Learning
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Articles, Teaching and Learning
I am just finishing up a book on pedagogical scholarship, more specifically a review of previously published work on teaching and learning authored by faculty in disciplines other than education and its related fields. If you read this newsletter regularly, you know that I have no quarrels with folks in education. In fact they are
