Category Archives: Life in Academe
Adding Image Headers in Moodle
Navigating courses in online platforms can raise all sorts of issues for students and their instructors. At Queens University of Charlotte, we use Moodle to create opportunities for course management … Continue reading
Adjunct faculty are educators, too.
49% of college instructors nationwide are classified as adjunct faculty. Adjunct faculty are seen as peripheral to higher education, but play a vital role in student education. Community colleges are … Continue reading
Designing Multiple Pathways to Learning
One of the key trends impacting colleges and universities today is the need for multiple pathways to participation in an institution. At the City University of Seattle, faculty and administrators … Continue reading
One word to promote general education renewal (it’s not “jobs”)
A general education outcome that reads, “through a diverse set of course, students explore various disciplines as part of an integrated education that causes them to connect and apply their … Continue reading
Strategizing Faculty Engagement in Curricular Reform
A Tale of Two Universities: Faculty members and administrators at Boise State University and Miami Dade College joined forces in this session to share their two stories. Their hope was … Continue reading
Threats to Curricular Innovation and Faculty Engagement
We have to face the fact that we have designed curricula that no longer resonate with our students and do not promote the learning the need to succeed in today’s … Continue reading
Creative Inquiry: engaging students in real-world problems
The creative inquiry project at Clemson University has the goal of “a research project for every student,” says Barbara Speziale, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Clemson. It supports a … Continue reading
A Rich Archive Creates Better Reflections of Learning
E-portfolios are bodies of work that rely on collection, selection, and reflection, says Kathleen Blake Yancey, Professor at Florida State University.The e-portfolio has the ability to bring together multiple types … Continue reading
If we focus on student learning, do we really need courses?
Barbara Wright, Vice President of Western Association of Schools and Colleges suggests that our biggest threats build on the changing demographics of our students, but also our changing perceptions of … Continue reading
