Posts Tagged ‘Teaching and Learning Challenges’
December 10 - Making the Shift from Rhetoric to Performance
By: Michael Harris, PhD, and Roxanne Cullen, PhD in Academic Leadership
Discussion of teaching and learning as an academic, scholarly endeavor has become an acceptable conversation on college campuses. A shift is beginning to take place whereby the scholarship of teaching and learning is now being taken seriously. We are making progress in higher education by making undergraduate education intentional, thus moving toward a learner-centered paradigm.
October 2 - Understanding What You See Happening in Class
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning
While conducting a class, even though teachers may be doing all or most of the talking, students communicate important nonverbal messages. They communicate these messages through facial expressions, body postures, and how they say what they say, as well as what actions they do or the skills they attempt to perform. Both novice and expert teachers see the same student responses, but expert teachers see in those responses something very different than novices see.
August 25 - Eight Ways to Support Faculty Needs with a Virtual Teaching & Learning Center
By: Kathleen MacDonald in Faculty Development
Teaching and learning support professionals, particularly those who must perform miracles as a “Department of One,” can have one of the most challenging jobs on campus. They not only support the course design, content delivery strategies, technology integration, and training/orientation for faculty and students in online learning programs (asynchronous and synchronous formats), but they also support all other teaching/learning needs for classroom, blended, and any other teaching environment. This professional may be an instructional designer, an educational technologist, or very often, a designated faculty member with some or all of these skills.
January 9 - Top Teaching and Learning Challenges for 2009
By: Mary Bart in Academic Leadership, Teaching and Learning, Trends in Higher Education
EDUCAUSE, the association for information technology in higher education, released its list of Top Teaching and Learning Challenges for 2009. Voted on by the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning community, the top five challenges are:
