August 17, 2008 Rob Kelly
Changing workplace demands and student learning style preferences require that instructors rethink their courses. No longer can students passively absorb knowledge. They must become active learners — interacting with…
As college teachers, most of us know that the profession is changing, but we aren’t always as up on the details as we should be. The changes occurring today…
A recent informal poll conducted by Magna Publications’ electronic newsletters Faculty Focus and Eye on Students asked, “Would you like to see student affairs work more closely with academic…
In Articles, Teaching and Learning
August 14, 2008 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
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…
By Steve J. Thien, Kansas State University sjthien@ksu.edu I have found it significant to visualize teaching and learning not as a duality but as a trinity, a grouping of…
August 12, 2008 Therese Kattner
Studies on faculty careers show that faculty research publication productivity plateaus or drops at midcareer. However, this one measure of faculty productivity should not be mistaken as stagnation, says…
In order to have a productive learning environment, the instructor needs to develop and maintain a sense of trust between and among the students and the instructor through good…
Instructors need to take steps to make the online classroom a comfortable and supportive learning environment regardless of students’ online learning experience or learning style preferences-a particularly important consideration…
The Buck Institute for Education’s definition of project-based learning-“a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills acquired through an extended inquiry process structured around complex,…
If we had been asked if we were prepared to teach online before teaching our first online courses, the answer would have been a naïve “Yes.” We had attended…
