Creating a Community of Leadership: Lessons learned from managing an academic leadership development program by Mary Y. Lee and Regina Corrao – August 30, 2011
What’s the Problem With Quiet Students? Anyone? Anyone? (The Chronicle of Higher Education September 5, 2010)
Divided Attention: In the age of classroom multitasking, scholars probe the nature of learning and memory (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 28, 2010)
Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students (Chronicle of Higher Education December 15, 2009)
The Millennial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions by Eric Hoover (Chronicle of Higher Education October 11, 2009)
William Lewis Sapphire, who recently passed away, was always a colorful character. His fascination with the use of the English language lasted a lifetime. For a fun, tongue-in-cheek set of tips on the proper use of American English, enjoy the “fumble rules of grammar” from 1979.
Best in Class – a snapshot of this years incoming freshman class
Spring 2009 Teaching Awards Announcements
Newsweek Web Exclusive, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
Byline: Wray Herber, Mind Matters
“Psychologists and educators are very interested in these questions, and in the related question: What’s the best way to study? Traditionally, tests have been viewed and used as mere assessment tools – a way to measure whether or not students are progressing as they should be. But two psychologists – Henry Roediger of Washington Universitya nd Jeffrey Karpicke of Purdue – have been challenging this conventional wisdom.”
Read on about their research and some very interesting results!
Tufts Learns How Far a Big Gift Can Go [Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2009 edition]
Wake Up and Smell the New Epistemology , an article written by Tim Clydesdale in the January 23, 2009 edition of The Chronicle Review proposes that we respect our students as thinkers, and consider meeting them where they are.
Colleges calling sleep a success prerequisite [Boston.com]
Foreign Language Faculty in the Age of Web 2.0 [EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3]
Defining Tools for a New Learning Space: Writing and Reading Class Blogs [The Journal of Online Teaching]
Wikis as a Tool for Collaborative Course Management [The Journal of Online Teaching]
When Web Sites Post Test Answers, Professors Worry [The Chronicle of Higher Education Online]
Professors Make Their Own Videos [The Chronicle of Higher Education Online]
Research Yields Tips on Crafting Better Syllabi [The Chronicle of Higher Education Online]
The Unbearable Importance of Grading [The Chronicle of Higher Education Online]
New Effort Encourages Professors to Share the Research Materials on Their Hard Drives [The Chronicle of Higher Education Online]
EDUCAUSE Quarterly’s top-ten teaching and learning issues, 2007
