Are Academic Blogs Scholarship?
While blogging has certainly matured, the concept of academic blogging still conjures up, in the eyes of some, images of professors in pajamas whining about ear...
Author: Charlie Sweet
The Personal Pedagogic Inventory
Like a lot of other Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs), we remain convinced that today’s faculty do not receive the necessary pedagogic training in gradua...
Mindmapping: A Technique for Innovation
In the aftermath of our publishing novels, short stories, and academic books and articles, the three of us continue to be asked the same question: where do you ...
Kentucky Pedagogicon: How We Did It
For the past few years we (Rusty, Hal, and I) have argued that the traditional three-part list of faculty responsibilities—teaching, scholarship, and service—ne...
Is Your Center of Teaching and Learning Be A Hammer or Nail?
Years ago Paul Simon told (Hal, Rusty, and I) that “I’d rather be a hammer than a nail.” In essence, every Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL) has to decide w...
Applying Pedagogy As The Fifth Creative Thinking Perspective
Hasn’t the time come for creative thinking researchers to begin a scholarly conversation about the fifth P? What, you didn’t realize there were already four Ps?...
Applying CRISP to Change Higher Education Campus Culture
In chapter nine of our Achieving Excellence in Teaching (2014), we explain the importance of using CRISP* as an organizational principle for effective classroom...
How Design Thinking Helps Innovate Faculty Development, Part I
Throughout the years in our center for teaching & learning (CTL), we’ve pretty much relied on our own approach to creative thinking, something we’ve discuss...
The X-Factor: One Result of Success
“Success,” suggested Emily Dickinson, “is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.” We’d like to add a corollary to the Belle of Amherst’s famous pronouncem...
Going to WAR: Using a Weekly Activities Report for Assessment
Want a simple assessment tool for your CTL, one that tracks your daily activities while providing you with a detailed read-out of what activities dominate your ...