Steven Volk, Director, Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE), Professor of History Emeritus, Oberlin College Posted April 24, 2017 It has been an unsettled period at the Claremont colleges in California. On April 6, about 250 protesters at… Read More
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Changing Campus Culture One Conversation at a Time…(Drs. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis and Deirdre D. Johnston, Hope College)
Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis (Professor of Psychology) and Dr. Deirdre D. Johnston (Department of Communication), Hope College We recently attended a professional conference on “Teaching Peace in the Context of Political Polarization and Partisan Divides.” During the Q & A… Read More
Innovative Pedagogy and Non-tenured Faculty (Amity Reading, DePauw University)
Amity Reading, Department of English, DePauw University As an assistant professor nearing the end of my probationary period, I am intimately familiar with the pressures that attend the tenuring process. I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task of compiling… Read More
COLLABORATIONS: Gabriele Dillmann (Denison University) and Diana Stantcheva (American University of Bulgaria)
Gabriele Dillmann, Professor of German at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, USA, and Diana Stantcheva, Professor of German at the American University of Bulgaria (AUBG) in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, developed a set of connected courses which they have offered to their… Read More
“Flipping” a Classroom
By Jeremiah Alberg Professor, Philosophy and Religion; Director, Center for Teaching and Learning International Christian University Tokyo, Japan Definition In this essay I offer a brief report and some evaluative remarks on my own experience of a “flipped classroom.” I… Read More
The Risks and Rewards of Teaching Pop Culture
Amity Reading Department of English DePauw University Like any other discipline, medieval literature has its own unique challenges when it comes to teaching. If students can manage to get past the complicated historical context, convoluted language, and sometimes inscrutable narrative… Read More
Latinos in Rural America: A Public Humanities Community-Engaged Learning Project
Clara Román-Odio Professor of Spanish Kenyon College A significant body of research on mastery of academic content, career choice, and civic engagement substantiates community-engaged learning as a high-impact pedagogy. As Adler-Kassner et. al (1997) claim, “service learning in… Read More
How to Create an Effective Online Discussion Board.
Berta Carrasco Modern and Classical Languages Hope College Discussion boards are one of the most effective, most used activities – in a class that is either hybrid or fully online. The theory about online discussion boards and how to create… Read More
A Creation Story: The Albion College Center for Teaching and Learning
Jocelyn McWhirter Stanley S. Kresge Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Director, Center for Teaching and Learning at Albion College In the beginning, there was a sea of library books on pedagogy in higher education. There were also a few brown-bag… Read More
Coverage or Uncoverage: Lessons Learned while Teaching History
By Patrick Jackson (Philosophy, Religious Studies, and History, Allegheny College) Some years ago, before I finished my PhD and came to teach at Allegheny, I was a lecturer in the history department at the flagship campus of a large,… Read More