by Greg Wegner | Dec 4, 2016 | Article of the Week
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 effective ones is extensive...
by Greg Wegner | Nov 28, 2016 | Article of the Week
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 discussions....
by Greg Wegner | Nov 13, 2016 | Article of the Week
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, public, research...
by Greg Wegner | Nov 6, 2016 | Article of the Week
Karen L. Gunther, Department of Psychology, Wabash College. In 2009 I changed the way I teach Sensation and Perception from using a textbook to using what I call “non-fiction novels,” books that are real, but have more of a story line than do traditional textbooks –...
by Greg Wegner | Oct 30, 2016 | Article of the Week
Patrik Hultberg, Associate Professor of Economics and Coordinator of Educational Effectiveness, Kalamazoo College I was recently asked the question, “How do today’s students learn?” It is an important question, but my initial answer was “the same way as students have...
by Greg Wegner | Oct 23, 2016 | Article of the Week
By Alexis Hart, Department of English, Allegheny College. As Bill Pannapacker of GLCA member institution Hope College stated in his February 2013 Chronicle of Higher Education article “Stop Calling It ‘Digital Humanities,’” liberal arts colleges work within “a model...