by Steven Volk | Mar 5, 2018 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Note: The GLCA had scheduled a major meeting of the Consortium for Teaching and Learning for the weekend of February 9-10, 2018, days, unfortunately, when a major snowstorm swept through the Midwest forcing us to cancel the meeting out of concern for everyone’s...
by Steven Volk | Mar 4, 2018 | Article of the Week, Featured Article
Greg Wegner, Director of Program Development, Great Lakes Colleges Association January 14, 2018 Introductory Note This essay derives from discussions involving faculty members and others from 13 independent liberal arts colleges who gathered for two days in February...
by Steven Volk | Feb 19, 2018 | Article of the Week, Featured Article, Uncategorized
Gregory Wegner, Co-Director, GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning Contact at: wegner@glca.org In October 2017 the GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning (CTL) distributed a survey via the CTL Campus Liaisons to faculty members of the GLCA’s 13...
by Steven Volk | Feb 19, 2018 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Sarah L. Bunnell, Associate Professor of Psychology, Ohio Wesleyan University; Vice President, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL) Contact: slbunnel@owu.edu Academia and academic disciplines are discourse communities (Swales,...
by Steven Volk | Feb 14, 2018 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Steven Volk, Director, Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE) and Professor of History Emeritus, Oberlin College, Co-Director, GLCA/GLAA Consortium on Teaching & Learning Contact at svolk@oberlin.edu We rushed to complete last minute preparations for...
by Steven Volk | Feb 5, 2018 | Featured Article, Uncategorized
Rick Warner, Associate Professor of History, Jane and Frederick Hadley Chair in History, Wabash College Contact at: warnerri@wabash.edu Over the past generation or so, History teachers (and I suspect others) have moved from the older model of assessing students...
