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...
Category: Faculty & Staff Development
Making It CRISP: Using Information Organization and Retrieval for Deep Learning
In Achieving Excellence in Teaching (2014) we devote a chapter to the importance of organization in instruction, especially individual class organization. To he...
Funding The Faculty Innovator’s Program
Dee Fink of Creating Significant Learning Experiences (2003) fame has championed centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) in his books, articles, and appearance...
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...
Is There Really a Teaching Revival Happening Now?
In Academically Adrift (2011), Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa present compelling evidence about the failure of American colleges and universities. “How much are ...
The Faculty Developer’s Most Important Question
To write Creating the Future of Faculty Development (2006), Sorcinelli et al sent out an 18-question survey to a host of faculty developers—e.g., what kind of i...
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?...
To Belong or Not Belong to POD in Higher Education?
We may be one of the few centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) that do not belong to POD (the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher E...
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...
Faculty Assessment Efforts: To Stipend or Not To Stipend
Assessment is a people process – not a person process – a people process. In higher education, the people are the faculty. It’s always a bit of a surprise that ...