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“Student success is our reason for being”: CHEA’s New National Quality Dialogue

ACUE sat down with Judith Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) to discuss the launch of their “National Quality Dialogue.” This effort includes reaching out to colleagues and faculty organizations to explore, reassess, and understand... Read more

“Having the Time of My Life”: The Trickle-Down Model of Self and Student Engagement

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) focuses on ways to increase student engagement. We reasoned that if teachers were thoroughly and genuinely engaged in their content, then their engagement would trickle down, with students empathizing with that engagement... Read more

Making Participation Count

Most syllabi encouraged, but did not formally grade, participation. In some, participation constituted as much as 50% of the grade. A good number measured it as attendance by exacting a price for more than a specified number of absences.... Read more

“Trust Grandma”: Strategies to Promote Reflection and Curiosity

My granddaughter, a rising sophomore, is buried with assignments. She shared, somewhat despairingly, that rarely can she get anything done in advance—only work due ‘tomorrow!’ I felt her stress and realized she hardly has time for practice and review,... Read more

School’s Out: Reflecting on the Term, Recharging over the Summer, and Readying for What’s Next

June 20, 2019
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R. Eric Landrum, self-reflection, summer
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I have never met a faculty member in my 30-year career who took the summer “off.” Even when an instructor has a nine-month contract, in my experience, most use the time to catch up on their field’s literature, conduct... Read more

Beyond the Final Performance: How to Build Transferable Knowledge and Skills

As the academic year concludes, we hear a lot about year-end student performance and results. There are final exams, final grades, course completions, etc. But my students’ reflections provided an important reminder: while our final performance may have been... Read more

Four Types of Discussion Forums in Online Courses

May 22, 2019
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Judith Boettcher, online discussion boards
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A key component of any online course is the discussion board. As online courses have matured, we realize that not all discussion forums are or should be the same. Some discussions are for building community; other discussions are for... Read more

Giving a Voice to Students’ Opposing Views: Creating Conditions for Respect and Inclusivity in Class Discussions

May 7, 2019
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Facilitating effective discussions, Harry Brighouse
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Teaching contemporary moral issues in a large lecture format presents a challenge. Of course, the students must read, write, and think. But they also need to have fruitful discussions in which different points of view are presented and argued... Read more

How Cognitive Psychology Can Inform Our Teaching

April 24, 2019
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Adam Persky, cognitive psychology, E. Bliss Green, Mackenzie Dolan
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Early in my career, I was guilty of using instructional strategies without knowing why they work. The problem with this is you don’t know how to troubleshoot if things do not go well or whether techniques that work in... Read more

Using Narrative Modeling to Introduce the Discussion of Race in the Classroom

Searching honestly for the learned racism and privilege at the heart of white identity is hard given that bearing witness to experiences of racism typically prompts whites to show solidarity with people of color. Read more

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