Why the Academic Blog?
Over the past decade blogs have proliferated on the Internet. Among those are the academic blog, which has all kinds of subgenres. We have a colleague, for inst...
Category: Applied Creative Thinking
Innovating the Classroom Observation Process
A decade ago in Creating the Future of Faculty Development (2006), Sorcinelli et al listed the most common services offered by centers of teaching and learning ...
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?...
The Importance of Physical Space for Faculty Performance
While space was the final frontier for countless episodes of Star Trek, creating the optimal teaching and learning spaces may be the final academic frontier for...
How Design Thinking Helps Innovate Faculty Development, Part 2
In The Ten Faces of Innovation (2008), Tom Kelley, general manager of the design firm IDEO, emphasizes the essence of design theory’s philosophy of rapid experi...
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...
Using Creative Thinking to Innovate Faculty Development
What is the relationship between innovation and faculty development? In the past we have discussed it in the abstract, but this time we’d like to demonstrate ho...
Focused Faculty Groups: Breakfast and a Book
One thing CTLs can do effectively is bring together people from across campus with like interests, especially people who might not otherwise meet. Just as a hea...
4 Reasons Authors Binge-Write
When we were in graduate school, one of the challenges was to try to read James Joyce’s 265,000-word Ulysses in Poe’s ideal of one sitting—binge-reading. And n...
Flipping the Classroom, New Book in It Works for Me Series
Recently, New Forums published the eighth book in our It Works for Me, Flipping the Classroom, and we couldn’t be more excited. Way back in the last century, we...