Congratulations to two CIRTL Scholars for presenting their Teaching as Research projects on the CIRTL network to the national cross network community. Elizabeth Mills: “Mixed Methods Assessment of Introductory Physics […]
Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) project offers an online platform to facilitate faculty professional development and sharing open educational resources for teaching quantitative skills. QUBES offer professional development […]
AAU is aware that there is a large body of literature on how people learn as well as a number of valid ways for faculty members to engage in formative […]
PALM Fellows Will: Gain mentorship from leaders in undergraduate biology teaching and learning Learn best practices in teaching and in assessing active learning Create an original teaching module that engages […]
–AAPT College instructors are often afraid to use active learning instructional strategies because they fear that students may complain and/or give them lower evaluations of teaching.
–Science Advances Science Advances evaluate the impact of an institutional effort to transform undergraduate science courses using an approach based on course assessments. The approach is guided by A Framework […]
–Nature Programmers from high school through to graduate school are aiming to keep more women and people from underrepresented groups in the physical sciences.
–NCBI Results from end-of-course student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are taken seriously by faculties and form part of a decision base for the recruitment of academic staff, the distribution of […]
–eLearning One way to engage learners is to make content immediately relevant. People naturally pay more attention to information they can use right away than information they “might need someday.”
–Inside Higher Ed The proportion of college instructors who are teaching online and blended courses is growing. So is their support for using technology to deliver instruction. But their belief […]
