AAC&U 2019: Faculty Centrality in Fulfilling the Promise of LEAP ELOs, HIPs, and VALUE
Faculty are central to implementing ELOs, HIPs, and VALUE rubrics. What roles, supports, incentives, and change processes are necessary to ensure that faculty can create the learning conditions, with fidelity and at scale, for all of our students to succeed? At AAC&U’s Annual Meeting last week, Natasha Jankowski, director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes […]
The Collective and ACUE Join Forces to Prepare Students for Rewarding Careers
As you may have seen in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, we recently launched a major collaboration with The Career Leadership Collective to further advance high-quality instruction and career preparation at colleges and universities nationwide. “The Collective is committed to helping higher education and career leaders systemically weave career education into the fabric of the […]
Q&A: Suann Yang and Tarren Shaw on Curricular Transformation
In a new study published in PLOS ONE, a team of biology professors set out to evaluate and share what they learned about their process of curricular transformation for an introductory biology course. A key takeaway? “Curricular transformation takes time. A long time.” In this interview, Suann Yang and Tarren Shaw, two of the study’s […]
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Enhancing teaching in nontraditional courses
Tap Dance Your Way Through ACUE: Connecting With Students in Nontraditional Classes
By Julie L. Pentz I teach dance for a living. I am a university professor, and I am a tap dancer who speaks through the sounds I make with my feet. I am an ACUE Fellow and now an ACUE Facilitator, guiding a new cohort of my university peers though ACUE’s Course in Effective Teaching […]
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Speech Class is Now in Session! Professional Speaker Best Practices to Take Your Class to New Heights
By Bridgett McGowen In late 2011 or early 2012, I convinced my manager to approve my attendance at a training and development conference in Denver to further hone my skills as a faculty development consultant. It was a conference for corporate trainer types, learning and development professionals… those kinds of experts. One session that stood out […]
California’s Classrooms: News from TiHE, UC Santa Cruz, and Cal State LA
Teaching in Higher Ed’s Bonni Stachowiak: Making the Most of Mistakes
When it comes to producing podcasts, a quick audio cut or fade can help polish over mistakes. When it comes to Dr. Bonni Stachowiak’s popular Teaching in Higher Ed, mistakes are worthy of celebration. Stachowiak’s willingness to grapple with gaffes was on display a few years ago when she turned an on-air blunder into an […]
