Are Senior Faculty Members Still Effective Teachers?
Now that I’m one of those “senior” faculty, I hear a lot of digs about faculty who need to retire … deadwood, still standing but hopefully about to topple. The belief that the teaching effectiveness of...
View ArticleMoving Past the Old 'Teaching vs. Research' Debate
The argument persists: teaching and research are complementary—each in some synergistic way builds on and supports the other. Standing against the argument is an impressive, ever-growing array of...
View ArticleHumor in Online Classrooms: New Ways to Learn and Laugh
Humor, whether in the form of jokes, riddles, puns, funny stories, humorous comments or other humorous items, builds a bond between the instructor and students; bridging the student-teacher gap by...
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Evidence of Evidence-Based Teaching
Evidence-based teaching seems like the new buzzword in higher education. The phrase appears to mean that we’ve identified and should be using those instructional practices shown empirically to enhance...
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What SoTL Research Does and Doesn’t Give Us
Last week I tried to write a blog post about research article reviews—those quantitative, qualitative, or narrative summaries of where the research stands on a given issue. I couldn’t make the post...
View ArticleA Motivational Journey: Reflecting on Student Surveys to Enhance Motivation...
Online learning has quickly joined the ranks of higher education as a necessary alternative to traditional face-to-face instruction. While this substitute requires a significant amount of...
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