Project History
The Grand Challenges for Assessment in Higher Education project is a collaborative effort endorsed by ten higher education organizations to create national strategic plans to address pressing challenges facing assessment in higher education. Singer-Freeman and Robinson (2020)
Presence and Integrity in Online Learning -- Campus Technology
At their best, synchronous online courses are shared experiences, and students are fully present to boost each other's learning. But in the virtual world it takes more than webcams to get us there. Here, Gardner Campbell explains his concept of integrity in online learning and how it can make your students true learning colleagues.
Assessing Teaching with Beate Brunow and Shawn Simonson - Intentional Teaching
In today’s episode, we dig into an important question for higher ed: How can we improve the evaluation of teaching? Researcher Corbin Campbell was quoted in a Chronicle article recently, saying, “Folks will say quality teaching is hard to measure....
Connectivism is a relatively new learning theory that suggests students should combine thoughts, theories, and general information in a useful manner. It acc...
Making the most of critical student evaluations (opinion)
You can just ignore them, or you can take some positive steps to ensure that they will push you forward in your teaching, writes Constanza Bartholomae.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Student Engagement
At a recent #DLNChat, one of the questions, answers, and resulting discussion prompted me to ask Karen Costa (writer, faculty member, and faculty development facilitator extraordinaire) to write a piece for us on her comments. Today's blog post is thought-provoking […]
Summit Reflection: Pedagogies of Care - Duke Learning Innovation
In early October, Learning Innovation hosted the inaugural Emerging Pedagogies Summit for Duke faculty and staff invested in teaching and learning. The Summit’s goal was to promote ongoing conversations about ...
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How can we improve teaching in higher education?This week the Future Trends Forum is pleased to host the authors of a new book, Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education. Meira Levinson is professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Jeremy T. Murphy is an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross.https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/9781682537985/instructional-moves-for-powerful-teaching-in-higher-education/https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/meira-levinsonThis event is powered by Shindig, the video chat event provider. On Shindig, audiences all can see one another and engage in private video chats sharing and discussing the content of the presentation. Event hosts may also bring selected audience members to the stage to ask questions or otherwise interact with guest speakers. Shindig; the dynamics of in person events, online.
