by Steven Volk | Jul 15, 2020 | Article of the Week, Featured Article
Joanne L. Stewart, Professor of Chemistry, Hope College, March 12, 2018 Contact at: stewart@hope.edu This is not a guide for designing a community of practice—those exist (Cambridge, Kaplan, & Suter, 2005; Wenger, McDermott, & Snyder, 2002). It is, instead, a...
by Steven Volk | Mar 12, 2020 | Featured Article
We offer here a compilation of resources that the GLCA/GLAA’s Consortium for Teaching and Learning has circulated in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the decision of many colleges and universities to move to remote instruction. Feel free to pass along...
by Steven Volk | Feb 4, 2020 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Steve Volk (GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning and Oberlin College), February 4, 2020. Educators are profoundly anxious about the state of democracy in the United States and what its further deterioration might imply for educational institutions and the...
by Steven Volk | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Steve Volk (GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning and Oberlin College), December 11, 2019 (a version appeared in “After Class” on December 30, 2018) Semesters can feel like ocean journeys. Sometimes the seas are choppy, sometimes calm. Sometimes...
by Steven Volk | Nov 12, 2019 | Featured Article
(Image by Martín Elfman, Chronicle of Higher Education) Steve Volk (GLCA/GLAA Center for Teaching and Learning and Oberlin College), November 12, 2019 While we typically devote the Feature Article to the research and observations of faculty and staff at one of the...