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Closing the Gap

July 1, 2020
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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

Tap Dance Your Way Through ACUE: Connecting With Students in Nontraditional Classes

January 16, 2019
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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

Growing Graduate Student Professional Development

December 4, 2018
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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

Faculty Spotlight: Peter Plourde, also known as Professor Lyrical

April 4, 2018
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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

Owning vs. Sharing the Classroom

July 26, 2017
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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

ACUE’s Learning Design Earns Quality Matters Certification

May 31, 2017
Geoff Decker
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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

Video: Students Become the Experts at Housatonic Community College

May 24, 2017
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A community college professor gives her class a boost with an active learning technique called the jigsaw exercise. Read more

Video: How an Engagement Trigger at the Start of Class Improves Student Engagement

April 13, 2017
Laura Berlinsky-Schine
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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