A consensus is emerging that high-impact practices must, at a minimum, require that students:
• reflect, at a metacognitive level, on the assignment or activity;
• make a sustained effort over a period of time that culminates in a major piece... Read more
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“Institutions need to devote far more attention to and support for the quality of teaching and the teaching workforce and become more purposeful, effective, and efficient—reengineering their systems to focus on student completion,” says the American Academy of Arts... Read more
Teaching takes center stage in this fall’s issue of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, and ACUE is honored to share the spotlight. Alongside articles by George Kuh, Ken O’Donnell, and Carol Geary Schneider on high-impact practices, José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward... Read more
An educator calls for a new, student-centered education model, and a professor's experiment involving students in their own grading process yields surprising results. Read more
The best way to advance and recognize the rightful place of faculty in student success efforts is to invest in and demonstrate the impact of evidence-based instruction on student achievement. So argues the American Council on Education (ACE), with... Read more
In a provocative new report, AAU President Mary Sue Coleman calls for a “new normal” in which “all faculty members will both use and be rewarded for using evidence-based approaches to instruction.” In the paper—a progress update on AAU’s... Read more
Quality Matters (QM), a leader in quality assurance of online and blended learning, has awarded its nationally recognized Quality Matters Certification to the Association of College and University Educators’ (ACUE) Course in Effective Teaching Practices. Following QM’s in-depth evaluation... Read more
A community college professor gives her class a boost with an active learning technique called the jigsaw exercise. Read more
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... Read more
Naugatuck Valley Community College is one of four colleges in the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU) system to launch ACUE's Course as part of a system initiative. Read the details below, which are cross-posted on NVCC's website. Read more