This week, ideas for providing students with forums to make their voices heard and addressing the work force skills gap by teaching foundational skills in college. Read more
Category: News
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
This week, read about how 10 instructors are using innovative methods to teach their students. 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
This week, professors offer suggestions for teaching midsemester, such as providing materials to prepare students for receiving their first big grade and remembering to focus on the student experience when taking over a course from another instructor. Sign up... Read more
One professor describes how Google’s research on teamwork can be applied to higher education, and another explains how instructors can rediscover their excitement for teaching. Sign up for The Q Newsletter for weekly news and insights. How the Provost... Read more
Two professors describe ways instructors can promote students' learning in lectures, and award-winning faculty weigh in on what good teaching looks like. 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
This week, instructors share methods for engaging different types of students, from non-majors to introverts to students in large lectures. Read more