Teaching and Learning
To match the changes in higher education’s student demographic, methods of instruction must transform as well. Today’s students have constraints on their time and bring more experience to the classroom than ever before. Instruction must adapt to ensure the needs and expectations of students are being met.
A Scientifically Sound Approach to Lifelong Learning
Jeffrey S. Russell | Dean of Continuing Studies and Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning, University of Wisconsin-MadisonMake It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Harvard University Press) begins with a provocative statement: “People are generally going about learning in the wrong ways.” You might bristle at…
Stop Talking and Start Doing: How to Deliver 21st-Century Student Engagement and Education
Michelle R. Weise | Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Vice President of Workforce Strategies, Strada Education NetworkIt’s interesting to see the evolution of the conversation within education reform circles. The “college for all” access agenda seems to have had its day. Getting in is no longer…
The Edges of Pedagogy: Defining (and Promoting) Actual Safe Spaces for Student Engagement
Randall Stauffer | Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Woodbury UniversityHigher education has traditionally been a top-down endeavor, which, at least superficially, seemed to work reasonably well. After all, students are typically in receive mode as professors share their expertise…
Tailor Teachers Use Personality Style and Multiple Intelligences to Help Students Thrive
Vaughn Bicehouse | Assistant Professor, Slippery Rock University of PennsylvaniaThose who teach can and do. Students need the doers, they need effective educators who are not only experts in instruction, but also cultivators of student assessment and student learning.…
Thirty Years After Allan Bloom’s Classic The Closing of the American Mind: The Liberal Arts and What It Means to be College Educated in 2018
Robert Hill | Professor Emeritus, Nova Southeastern University and Higher Education Consultant, Leadership & Planning SpecialistsIt has been thirty years since Allan Bloom wrote the controversial 1987 runaway bestseller The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls…
Schemata and Instructional Strategies
Jeffrey Czarnec | Associate Dean of Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences in the College of Online and Continuing Education, Southern New Hampshire UniversityThe Importance of Schemata in Teaching and Learning Students’ comprehension of course content will likely be the same or similar, thus it is important to recognize that students’ understanding of…
Measuring High-Quality Online Instruction: Lessons Learned from the Implementation of a Faculty Development Process
Scott Dolan | Associate Dean of the School of Business and Technology, Excelsior CollegeAmong the challenges facing higher education, few are more critical than the issue of effective instruction. In fact, for Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize award-winning physicist, the biggest problem with higher…