October 21, 2019, was a golden day for those interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Somehow, across a variety of teaching and
Decades ago, a new employee was hired to paint stripes on the side and middle of a road. This was before automated machines, and thus
I have been teaching various levels of reading skills and composition to native and non-native speakers, to immigrants and U.S. citizens, to people with talent
Michelle Pautz, PhD, is an assistant provost for the Common Academic Program and professor of Political Science at the University of Dayton. She shares that
Online instructors have known for some time that the primary work of creating an online course consists of “curation,” which is usually understood to be
Lecturing is one of the most traditional methods of teaching in higher education. On any given day, there are hundreds of lectures being delivered in
We live in a time of never-before held access to information, which means educators must compete with a wide-ranging array of media for the finite
I found the article, “Testing and Assessment: Looking in the Wrong Places” by Dr. Caristi (Faculty Focus, 11 Sept. 2019) interesting. But, if I am
Most of us teaching at the college level like to read. We read professional materials, and we read for pleasure. We know firsthand that much
There is a vast pedagogical literature spelling out the benefits of student engagement and active participation (1). A recent meta-analysis study of 225 active learning
