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Spring 2008
Beyond Writing: Integrative Learning and Teaching in First-Year Seminars
Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Using Faculty Learning CommunitiesTeaching, Learning, and Spirituality in the College Classroom
Role-Play: An Often Misused Active Learning Strategy
Fall 2007
Building Assignments That Teach
Collaboration or Plagiarism? Explaining Collaborative-Based Assignments
The Right Start: Reflections on a Departmentally-Based Graduate Course on College Teaching
The Useful, Sensible, No-Frills Departmental Assessment Plan
Spring 2007
From Passive to Active Learning: Helping Students Make the Shift
Student Teams, Teaching, and Technology
Practice Tests: A Practical Teaching Method
Using Student-Centered Assessment to Enhance Learning
Fall 2006
Leveling the Field: Using Rubrics to Achieve Greater Equity in Teaching and Grading
Laughterpiece Theater: Humor as a Systematic Teaching Tool
Assessing Students' Online Learning Strategies and Resources
Teaching Porfolios for Graduate Students: Process, Content, Product, and Benefits
Spring 2006:
A Roadmap to Part-Time Faculty Success
Teaching for Diversity and Inclusiveness in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)
Why Knowing About Disciplinary Differences Can Mean More Effective Teaching
Validity, Research, and Reality: Student Ratings of Instruction at the Crossroads
Fall 2005:
Teaching Bioethics Through Participation and Policy-Making
PowerPoint: Possibilities and Problems
The Power of Student Stories: Connections That Enhance Learning
Transitions: What's Love Got to Do with It?
Spring 2005:
Encouraging Civil Behavior in Large Classes
Self-Efficacy in College Teaching
Engaging Faculty in New Forms of Teaching and Learning
Engaging the Whole Student: Interactive Theatre in the Classroom
Fall 2004:
Great Expectations and Challenges for Learning Objects
Promoting Learning Through Inquiry
Taking Self Assessment Seriously
Student Plagiarism: Are Teachers Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
Spring 2004:
Helping Students Help Each Other: Making Peer Feedback More Valuable
Improving Teaching Through Classroom Action Research
Team Teaching: The Learning Side of the Teaching-Learning Equation
Creating a Culture of Co-Learners with Problem-Based Learning
Unlearning: A Critical Element in the Learning Process
Fall 2003:
Teachers and Scholars as Designers: The Art and Practice of Instructional Design
From Cognitive Dissonance to Self-Motivated Learning
Diversity Begins at Home: Multicultualism in State and Regional Studies
Reflections on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Spring 2003:
Teaching in Action: Multicultural Education as the Highest Form of Understanding
Imperatives for Reforming Pedagogy and Curriculum
The Multicultural Teaching Portfolio
Teachers Are Diverse, Too: Respecting Each Other's Beliefs
Fall 2002:Cooperative Learning: It's Here to Stay
Classroom Assessment: Guidelines for Success
Academic Service-Learning: Myths, Challenges, and Recommendations
Integrating Learning Strategies into Teaching
Spring 2002:
Higher Level Learning: A Taxonomy for Identifying Different Kinds of Significant Learning
Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment
College Teaching as an Educational Helping Relationship
Fall 2001:
Risky Business: Making Active Learning a Reality
Competence Is What You Do When You Make a MKistake
Teaching with Style: The Interaction of Teaching and Learning Styles in the Classroom
Changing Student Learning Behavior Outside of Class
Helping Students (Better) Evaluate and Validate WWW Resources
Fostering Students' Moral Development
Spring 2001:
Disciplinary Cultures and General Education: What Can We Learn from Our Learners?
Teaching Goals, Assessment, Academic Freedom and Higher Learning
Students' Reactions to Performance-Based Versus Traditional Objective Assessment
I'd Like to Use Essay Tests, But...
Course Tests: Integral Features of Instruction
But How Do We Get Them to Think
Fall 2000:
Active Learning Beyond the Classroom
Helping First-Year Students Study (Part II)
Helping First-Year Students Study (Part I)
Mentorship in the Classroom: Making the Implicit Explicit
Spring 2000:
The Nature of Expertise: Implications for Teachers and Teaching
Critical Thinking Requires Critical Questioning
Are We Going to Cyberspace, or Is This Just Another Trip to Abilene?
Learning Outside the Box: Making Connections between Co-Curricular Activites and the Curriculum