September 7, 2020Ask your students: The value of student input on online course designby Sophia Abbot and Geneva SteinFor Jeongmin Cho, a junior at Princeton University from Seoul, South Korea, the transition to remote learning this spring was a transition to an entirely new form of teaching and learning. He explains, “I have grown up in a traditional…
September 4, 2020Beware of Simple Universal Recommendations about Group Assignmentby David BuckWith any group assignment, there are a number of decisions that need to be made before introducing the assignment to students. Some of those decisions have to do with features of the assignment (e.g., what will you assess and when…
September 1, 2020New Open Access Book: Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher EducationNow available in our Open Access Series Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Creating and Contributing to Scholarly Conversations across a Range of Genres by Mick Healey, Kelly E. Matthews, and Alison Cook-Sather Writing about Learning and Teaching…
August 25, 2020Service-learning/Community Engagement Opportunities and Immersive Learningby Phillip MotleyLike many higher education institutions, Elon University is many things, including a place of opportunity and possibility. Since my last blog post, I was selected to serve as Elon’s next Faculty Fellow for Service-Learning and Community Engagement (SL-CE). By itself,…
August 24, 2020Designing Online or Hybrid/Flex Study Away ExperiencesIn response to shifts to online learning due to COVID-19 in spring 2020 and in anticipation of alternate models for higher education in fall 2020 and beyond, we have curated publications and online resources that can help inform programmatic and…
August 20, 2020Academic Book Publishing: Cover Designby Jennie GoforthThere is little in the book production process that creates as much excitement (and often, disagreement) as the design of the book cover. Every author wants a cover that conveys their enthusiasm for the content within, a cover that communicates…
August 12, 2020What Makes Workplace Writing Meaningful?by Julia BleakneyWhat factors related to college writing make it meaningful to students? Are these the same factors that make workplace writing meaningful to alumni? The meaningfulness of college writing is an important concept for educators and administrators. In their analysis of…
August 6, 2020Are Group Assignments a Waste of Time?by David BuckAre group assignments effective pedagogy or a waste of time? This is the question asked by researcher Michael Thom (2020) in his recent paper examining the scholarship on collaborative pedagogy. To be clear, I’m being literal here. The title of…
August 4, 2020A Snapshot of Employers’ Expectations of Graduates’ Skills and Abilities in Technical Communicationsby Paula RosinskiIn a previous blog post, Julia Bleakney discussed some of the methods and documents that researchers have used to “capture employers’ expectations for the communication skills and abilities of college graduates in technical and engineering fields.” In this blog, I’ll…
July 30, 2020Collaborative Projects and Assignmentsby David BuckThe high-impact educational practice (HIP) that I’m studying and writing about for the next two years is “collaborative projects and assignments.” Part of the reason that I selected this topic was because it was one of the only HIPs out…