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
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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
Check out the complete Newark Times video interview in which Dr. Bonnie Veysey and Dr. Alexander Sannella discuss teaching practices they’ve learned and implemented and the immediate response they’re seeing from students. Read more
Greater fiscal stability for the nation’s colleges and universities can be achieved right inside our classrooms, writes New Jersey City University's Dan Julius. Read more
At ACE's 99th Annual Meeting, higher education leaders discussed why they had adopted ACUE to help them scale up effective instruction on their campuses. Read more