Originally published on: October 12, 2010 Last spring, I attended the School of Sciences and Engineering’s (SSE) retreat gathering in Alexandria, and as usual it …

The biweekly newsletter of the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo

Originally published on: October 12, 2010 Last spring, I attended the School of Sciences and Engineering’s (SSE) retreat gathering in Alexandria, and as usual it …

Originally published on: September 28, 2010 Grading or Assessing Learning Our students “worship” the grade! Faculty find grading too subjective and difficult to justify! Employers …

Originally published on: April 20, 2010 The perennial problem of the relationship between teaching and research has persisted in academia for generations, but with some …

Originally published on: April 7, 2010 The world of the 21st century will be shaped and led by knowledge-based societies and nations. Globalization has already …