The semester is nearing its end, and it is easy to just grind out the last few weeks before finals, like the last mile of a long race. Just like in a race, though, it is often that final stretch that really counts, both for your performance and how you feel about it, so it… Read more »
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is often referred to as a community. SoTL scholars engage in some of my favorite activities in academia. We talk about teaching and learning in fun and creative ways, we ask questions and inquire into why something worked (or not), and we find camaraderie across disciplines, types of… Read more »
Knowing that in 2014 only 9% of students at IUB voted, instructors need to take the lead in developing citizenship skills and challenging their students to participate in democracy. According to Nancy Thomas, “Learning for democracy should be a national priority, and our colleges and universities need to lead this charge.” Is taking a few… Read more »
Now that we’ve shared fundamental resources for creating a partnership and revising your syllabus to detail service-learning, let’s turn an eye to assessment. Assessment of community-engaged teaching and learning follows the same practices of assessing student learning, with some specialized tools particular to the method. While targeted at service-learning, the support offered below works for… Read more »
In this post we will explore various options for finding and creating affordable course materials for your students. In 2017, the Babson Survey Group published survey results from over 2,700 faculty representing all disciplines and institutions spanning two-year, four-year, public, and private institutions in every Carnegie classification. When asked which factors were important or very… Read more »
From the moment students apply to college, until years after they graduate, they leave behind a trail of data. Usually stored in Student Information System (SIS) warehouses, this data captures a student’s behavior and performance as well as the choices they make on the path taken toward graduation. In the past few years, more robust… Read more »
