How do we better understand our students’ ability to learn and meet the expectations of college-level work? How do we better understand our students’ ability to learn and meet the expectations of college-level work? This important question, rooted in... Read more
Tag Archive for: Course in Effective Teaching Practices
I use my ACUE training on a daily basis, and it continues to enhance the experience that my students have in the classroom. Here, I offer practical advice, encouragement, and strategies to adapt ACUE’s principles to any course, regardless... Read more
In recent years, discussions about the need to prepare graduate students to teach have become more widespread. Graduate students are often taught the content-specific knowledge of their disciplines and how to conduct research, but frequently they aren’t exposed to... Read more
Dr. Peter Michael Plourde, the director of faculty development at the University of the District of Columbia Community College (UDC-CC), teaches mathematics, including courses in basic math and business calculus this semester. To the general public and to many... Read more
What instructor hasn’t felt the need to control the classroom? The pressure on new educators to appear poised and in charge weighs on them. The thought of ceding any of that control to students feels somehow wrong even though... 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
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
ACUE teamed up with the University of Connecticut a day of on-camera interviews and classroom filming. Read more
ACUE’s highlights from ACE’s 98th Annual Meeting Read more