by Steven Volk | Feb 3, 2022 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Shelley Judge, with student co-authors Mazvita M. Chikomo (’22) and Justine Paul Berina (’22) The College of Wooster, Department of Earth Sciences Faculty dread receiving late work just as much as some students dread asking for extensions. As faculty, our goal is to...
by Steven Volk | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
A short time ago, we asked faculty members from our member colleges in the GLCA and GLAA to ponder the year-and-a-half – the “COVID long year” – gone by (and, in many senses, still under way). We asked: Are there things you discovered during last year’s teaching that...
by Lynn Ishikawa | Apr 22, 2021 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Lynn Ishikawa, DePauw University Collaborators: Jennifer Franz (Allegheny College), Alexis Hart (Allegheny College), Carla Reyes (College of Wooster), Tamara Stasik (DePauw University), Linda Weaver (College of Wooster) From its inception in January 2018 until now,...
by Steven Volk | Feb 28, 2021 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Steven Volk (Co-Director, GLCA Consortium for Teaching & Learning; Oberlin College) Over the seemingly interminable extent of the COVID pandemic, researchers have attempted to understand how students in higher education (and K-12) have been impacted by the...
by Steven Volk | Dec 17, 2020 | Featured Article
Winter break is here. Time to take a break from your academic chores…or to catch up a bit on some of the longer reads that you weren’t able to get to during the craziest of semesters. Here are a few suggestions. This is not our “best of 2020”...
by Steven Volk | Aug 4, 2020 | Featured Article
Teaching this past semester, you don’t have to be reminded, was incredibly difficult. Faculty were required to prepare for all eventualities, as the course of the pandemic remained uncertain. That included face-to-face, online (synchronous and asynchronous), hybrid,...
