HIGHER ED TEACHING STRATEGIES FROM MAGNA PUBLICATIONS
- Rob Kelly
- July 7, 2008
No matter how long you’ve taught, there is always something you can learn from colleagues. This is the concept behind Kent State University’s faculty learning communities (FLCs). Currently, KSU…
- Maryellen Weimer, PhD
- July 6, 2008
As interest in scholarly work on teaching and learning continues to grow and more faculty are trying their hands at work in this arena, materials are needed that summarize…
- Rob Kelly
- July 5, 2008
In 2002, Campus Compact, with help from a Carnegie Corporation of New York grant, began investigating best practices in civic engagement. The three-year project looked at community colleges in…
- Errol Craig Sull
- July 4, 2008
To many students and would-be students who have yet to experience them, online colleges are sometimes viewed with a combination of suspicion and distrust—and occasional newspaper headlines talking about…
- Maryellen Weimer, PhD
- July 3, 2008
Instructors need to be thoughtful and reflective about those strategies they use when they respond to students’ answers, and this is especially true when the answer given is wrong….
- Larry D. Spence
- July 2, 2008
The Socratic questioning strategy described in the article appealed to me. I could see how it would cut down on quizzes, grading, and the whole sad enterprise of writing…
