Faculty Development: Consultation and Classroom Observation
Years ago before our university even had a Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL), it ran a faculty consultation process. One faculty member directed a cadre of ...
Author: Hal Blythe
Why Centers of Teaching and Learning Have Advisory Boards
In Creating the Future of Faculty Development (2006), Sorcinelli et al posit that faculty development has “entered a new age—the Age of the Network. Faculty, de...
Innovating Faculty Development Lessons From Pedagogy Day
By far our most important innovation for faculty development at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) has been Pedagogy Day. Our last post discussed innovating New ...
The Heisenberg Effect: A Flaw in Classroom Observation
As any self-respecting Trekkie or casual follower of the Star Trek TV-movie enterprise knows, the Prime Directive forbids interference in developing civilizatio...
Resources for Addressing Millennial Cyberslacker Students
We begin Achieving Excellence in Teaching: A Self-help Guide (New Forums, 2014) by citing Gerry Nosich’s Learning To Think Things Through (2001). After citing m...
It’s All in The Details
According to popular lore, the devil is in the details. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe believes “God is in the details.” As for us, creativity is in the det...
Using Ficipedia to Help Fiction Writers
Want a good exercise for writing better fiction, one that works whether you are a creative writing instructor or a fiction writer? Read on. In Chapter VIII of o...
Technology and The College Student
In “Automation Makes Us Dumb” (Wall Street Journal, 22-23 November 2014), Nicholas Carr posits that as today’s computers and software programs get better and be...
7 Tips for Making the Most of Higher Ed Instructional Videos
Recently we have been involved with a Professional Learning Community on Flipping the Classroom as well as creating our Teacher’s Toolbox, an on-demand professi...
The Health Benefits of Crossword Puzzles and Creativity
Recently we posted on the value of collaborative cruciverbalism—i.e., solving crossword puzzles with others is an effective tactic for developing creative think...