by Steven Volk | May 17, 2024 | News of the Week
Tell Us What You Would Find Useful as We Plan CTL Programming for Next Year This past year, the CTL has successfully organized programming on diverse topics including AI technology, support for faculty of color, and strategies for managing challenging conversations in...
by Steven Volk | May 10, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning How to Teach About Contentious Topics Like Israel and Hamas (Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 9, 2024): McMurtrie went looking for a course that tackles such a fraught topic, and found one at the Johns Hopkins University. How...
by Steven Volk | May 3, 2024 | News of the Week
Editor’s Note: Once again, it appears that most of the “teaching and learning” happening this past week was taking place in the campus protests that have now spread across the country. Journalists and opinion writers struggled to find the proper frame from which to...
by Steven Volk | Apr 26, 2024 | News of the Week
Note from the editor: Much of the news this past week covered the repercussions from the April 17th House Education and Workforce Committee hearings in which Columbia University’s president and other officials faced an intense grilling from Republican committee...
by Steven Volk | Apr 19, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning An Overlooked Way Professors Can Be Role Models (Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 18, 2024): Revealing unseen parts of their identities could help science instructors show students what’s possible for them, a researcher says....
by Steven Volk | Apr 12, 2024 | News of the Week
Teaching and Learning Retrieval Practice in Undergraduate Medical Education (Cindy Nebel, Learning Scientists, April 12, 2024): More evidence on retrieval practices, this time among undergraduate pre-med students. More on How – and Whether – to Develop Students’ Study...
