August 29, 2017Challenging the Consumer-Based Model of Educationby Ketevan KupatadzeResearch around student-faculty partnership suggests that such partnership challenges Western higher education systems in several important ways. Student-faculty partnership or Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning: destabilizes the existing consumer-oriented model of teaching and learning (Cook Sather et al.,…
August 22, 2017Is student-faculty partnership for you?by Ketevan KupatadzeIf you are anything like me, you think about each and every detail of your teaching almost on a daily basis. You try things, you change details, attempting to improve what works or change what does not. After teaching a…
August 7, 2017‘Capstone’ Experience in Higher Educationby Tony Weaver and Caroline Ketchamdefining, characterizing, and assessing as a high impact practice in a multi-institutional research context Capstone experiences are used by institutions and departments across higher education. They are often identified as a high impact culminating experience for student outcomes. But what…