A Strategic Imperative for Colleges and Universities
Seeking Better Student Outcomes? Start With Improving Instructional Quality
The below piece is cross-posted on ACE’s Higher Education Today blog. By Steven Taylor Today’s postsecondary students are increasingly being taught by part-time faculty. Currently, contingent faculty—part-time and full-time non-tenure-track faculty—are responsible for about 75 percent of college and university instruction, and that number is expected to increase each year for the foreseeable future. The primary […]
News Roundup: Reflections on Teaching Careers
This week, instructors reflect on their burgeoning and ending teaching careers. Plus, ways to help students recover from failures. News and insights delivered to your inbox every week: The Q Newsletter. Not Just Cash Cows Colleges should invest in educating professors on how to help international students acclimate to new cultures and improve the internationalization […]
Connecticut’s Great Teaching Initiative
Connecticut’s Student Success Initiative Starts with Great Teaching
At Naugatuck Valley Community College (NVCC), part of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system, student success means preparing students for the state’s knowledge economy. So when CSCU launched an initiative in partnership with ACUE to promote student success through great teaching, NVCC’s faculty were eager to participate. Read about NVCC’s faculty cohort below in a news release originally […]
News Roundup: Game-Based Learning and Teaching With Dolly Parton
This week, an instructor experiments with game-based learning, and students at the University of Tennessee learn about the twentieth century through the eyes of Dolly Parton. Sign up for The ‘Q’ Newsletter for weekly news and insights. Down With 8 a.m. Classes Mariah Evans of the University of Nevada, Reno, led a study on sleep […]
Gaming Learning and Teaching With Dolly Parton
News Roundup: Encouraging Class Participation and Pedagogy with Podcasts
This week, strategies for encouraging class participation from all students, and a professor tasks her students with creating their own podcasts. Sign up for The ‘Q’ Newsletter for the latest news and insights about higher education teaching and learning. Brenda Gunderson on Active Learning in Large Classes Brenda Gunderson, an award-winning lecturer featured in ACUE’s Course in […]
For This Large-Class Lecturer, Cartwheels and Communication are Key
Tasked with teaching more than 2,000 students each term, University of Michigan Senior Lecturer Brenda Gunderson uses a range of creative active learning strategies in her large classes. But it is Gunderson’s cartwheels that students often say resonate the most. “Seeing her do a cartwheel in class because she’s so excited that the entire class got the […]
