HIGHER ED TEACHING STRATEGIES FROM MAGNA PUBLICATIONS
- 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…
- John Braxton
- July 1, 2008
In his influential Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Ernest L. Boyer proposed that the definition of “scholarship” be broadened beyond the predominant emphasis on the scholarship of discovery…
- Thomas R. McDaniel PhD
- June 29, 2008
This is not a rant. As a college administrator, I am fully aware of the importance of assessment, and the bureaucratic efficiencies mandated in higher education in our country…
- Rob Kelly
- June 18, 2008
Despite increased external pressure on teaching and learning innovation, top-down, centralized strategic initiatives usually fail to produce large-scale transformational change. And the problem with smaller-scale pedagogical innovation is that…
- Maryellen Weimer, PhD
- June 17, 2008
How do faculty approach their development as teachers? Gerlese S. Akerlind has been using a qualitative research method known as phenomenographic analysis to try to answer this question. In…
- Errol Craig Sull
- June 15, 2008
In my several years of teaching online I have developed a variety of time-management tools that have helped me to stay on top of my classes while making my…
