Originally published on: September 20, 2005 I would like to welcome you all to the new academic year with this first issue of our 2005/06 …
Toward a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Classroom Action Research at AUC
Originally published on: February 15, 2005 “Instructors use data readily available from their classes to answer practical questions about teaching and learning in their classrooms” …
“New Learning Spaces”: an Eye Towards Our New Campus
Originally published on: November 23, 2004 “Spaces need to allow active learning; anything else is malpractice”(Best Ideas, 2003 PKAL/NITLE Workshop on “Learning Spaces”) Many universities …
Active Learning (3) Three Easy Pieces
Originally published on: October 12, 2004 “The new learning paradigm…balances the delivery of content with the discovery of knowledge”. (Saunders, 2000). One of the most …
Active Learning (1) The Peer Instruction Method
Originally published on: September 14, 2004 As “New Chalk Talk” resumes its biweekly newsletter, a warm welcome is extended to our new and returning faculty. …
Reviewing the Effectiveness of your Courses: Data in WebCT
Originally published on: May 25, 2004 “Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at understanding and improving student learning. It involves ….. systematically gathering, analyzing and …