Taking the Pulse of a Class
New app seeks to shake up student ratings of instruction by promoting open-ended feedback in the moment, throughout the semester, so that the feedback becomes more constructive than punitive. Inside Higher Ed
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Download Report: Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges
Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges Thirteen years ago, the Instructional Technology Council’s (ITC) board of directors created this survey instrument so as to produce data of use to eLearning practitioners. The survey targeted the ITC membership of predominantly two-year institutions. After all, from the inception of online learning, the […]
Social Impact in Personalized Virtual Professional Development Pathways
This article presents exploratory research into an education-based virtual mentoring provision, the Virtual Professional Learning and Development (VPLD) program, and uses the Elements of Value Pyramid to help frame findings in a way that highlights the participants’ (mentors’ and mentees’) perceived value of working together. Participants were educators and education leaders based within primary and […]
Transformative? Integrative? Troublesome? Undergraduate Honors Student Reflections on Information Literacy Abstract Threshold Concepts
In this exploratory study the authors ask students enrolled in a credit-bearing undergraduate research methods course to rank and evaluate the troublesome, transformative, and integrative nature of the six frames currently comprising the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The results indicate that students have valid insights into threshold concept-based instruction, but may confuse […]
Professional Development in an Online Context: Opportunities and Challenges from the Voices of College Faculty
Given the variety of learning and engagement needs of the increasingly diverse student population in higher education, flexible approaches to teaching are critical for improving student success. Professional development that provides faculty exposure to effective, evidence-based instructional strategies in an online context may enhance their teaching practices. This study explored the advantages and disadvantages of […]
Faculty Collaboration and Technology in the Liberal Arts
In response to enrollment and revenue declines, residential liberal arts programs are seeking ways to contain costs and build institutional capacity, while maintaining the quality of a liberal arts education. Some institutions have banded together to form robust consortia to share resources and distribute burdens. And some of these consortia have focused their efforts on […]
Designing Authentic Learning Activities to Train Pre-Service Teachers About Teaching Online
Online learning is increasingly being used in K-12 learning environments. A concomitant trend is found towards learning becoming authentic as students learn with tasks that are connected to real-world occupations. In this study, 48 pre-service teachers use an online environment to engage in authentic practice as they developed online learning experiences for their future students. […]
Unifying Experiences: Learner and Instructor Approaches and Reactions to ePortfolio Usage in Higher Education
This paper explores the alignment of student and instructor experiences when employing ePortfolio activities in a Canadian higher education context. Successful ePortfolio activities are operationalized as exhibiting alignment of expectations between students and instructors, whereas misalignment of expectations is characteristic of a poorer experience for the learners. Our research has shown that although this is […]
Arbitrator Sides With University on Academic Outsourcing
As more colleges have embraced online learning to (among other things) expand their enrollments at a time when their traditional pools of potential students are shrinking, conflicts with faculty members over who controls the curriculum have grown, too. Inside Higher Ed
Why You Should Ask Students to Help Design Courses
Welcome to Teaching, a weekly newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education. This week, Beckie Supiano describes what one college has learned from involving students in course design. We also report on new data on distance education, share a couple of teaching tips, and invite you to tell us where you turn for such advice. […]
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