Perceptions of Syllabi
This week I was fortunate to chat with students on the topic of teaching methods. They mentioned that the syllabus is often unhelpful, so...
Celebrate Teaching
This week, I would like to share the topics and description of our upcoming Celebrate Teaching: A Non-conference on December 13, 2019...
First Year Experiences
This week, I would like to share research on first year experiences (FYE), much of the research generalizes across courses. The first...
Feedback Using Technology
This week I received questions following up on last week's article, specifically on how a faculty might use low threshold tech to improve...
Effective Feedback
As we near the end of a semester, there seems to be questions on providing useful feedback. O’Donovan (2019) found that "What Makes Good...
Teaching Awards
A potential outcome of effective teaching could be a teaching award. This week I would like to share a 2006 article entitled, "Teaching...
Graduate TA Development
This week, I received a request for research on how to effectively support GTAs (thanks, Kiik). So, I would like to share the 2014...
Neuromyths Evidence-Based Practices
This week I would like share ideas that influence teaching and perhaps confuse foundational ways in which we learn. The Sep 2019 report...
Does the Room Matter?
This week I would like to share research on effective learning spaces. In a recent (2016) article by Stoltzfus & Libarkin (2016)...
Invigorate Your Teaching
As we near the middle of the term, I thought I would share some ideas, which although not a SoTL paper, most of the ideas are deeply...
