Faculty Development and Student Learning
Faculty Development and Student Learning Condon, Iverson, Manduca et al. reports the results of a multi-year study undertaken by faculty at Carleton College and Washington State University to assess how ...

Step Up and Lead for Equity: What Higher Education Can Do To Reverse our Deepening Divides
Step Up and Lead for Equity: What Higher Education Can Do To Reverse our Deepening Divides Identifies key practices for addressing issues of equity at an institutional level. Suggested Citation Association of ...

Sustainability incorporated into engineering education
Sustainability incorporated into engineering education Presents three personas of faculty beliefs about incorporating sustainability (an ABET standard) in the classroom based on shared characteristics emerging ...

Why theories of change matter
Why theories of change matter WCER Working Paper No. 2015-2; Connolly, M. R., & Seymour, E. (2015). Argues that making programmatic theories of change explicit, by helping organizers specify their reason for ...

A student-staff partnership approach to course enhancement: Principles for enabling dialogue through repurposing subject-specific materials and metaphors
Lucy Chilvers, Centre for Learning and Teaching, and the School of Art, University of Brighton; Alice FoxCentre for Learning and Teaching, and the School of Art, University of Brighton; Sarah Bennett, Centre for Learning and Teaching, and the School of Art, University of Brighton;
Although describing a museum-based art class, the central principles and many of the strategies used can be adapted to STEM diciplines. The staff (authors' term) designed their museum-based class to create opportunities for dialogue with students, hear their voices, and use the information gleaned from to enhance learning and evaluate the class and pedagogical decisions. The qualitative analysis of student and staff experiences shows not only responsiveness by both groups, but increased engagement and sense of belonging by students from historically marginalized groups. The article includes quotes from staff about the challenges of this strategy (such as needing to remain 'unplanned') and practical constraints such as funding shortfalls. They end with 5 principles for module design including 'creative evaluation' (their term for this): 1. embedding regular opportunities for formative reflection and evaluation; 2. evaluative activities allow students to reflect on their learning and on the course; 3. staff are listening responsively and adapting to students' feedback where needed; 4. time is allocated for collaborative activities to build trust and support reflections; 5. activities and assessments are relevant to the discipline.

Transformative Learning Networks: Guidelines and Insights for Netweavers
× Transformative Learning Networks: Guidelines and Insights for Netweavers ( This site may be offline. ) This report, aimed at designers and members of learning networks, explores how networks can foster ...

Shaping the Future of Higher Education: Practical, Community-Driven Initiatives to Improve Academic Climate
In this Editorial, we present the history and details of a collaborative effort to improve the academic climate of the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.

Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms
× Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms This paper describes five strategies which STEM faculty can use to build and ...

Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department
Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department This paper describes the role and potential contributions of science faculty with education specialties within ...

Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation
× Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation In this article Risien provides a framework for examining structures, roles and practices of networks, and particularly of roles ...