“I had no plan on what I was doing after university, the only thing I’d ruled out was teaching,” said David I. Smith. That was Smith’s mindset in the 1980s during his undergraduate years. Today, if ...

Faculty strive to create learning environments that support respectful dialogue, intellectual risk-taking, and inclusive engagement. Classroom disruptions may interrupt learning spaces, however, and ...

The Learning Household, a new book by Ken Bain and Marsha Marshall Bain, truly resonated with me because it affirms something I have always believed as a parent: the home should be a place where ...

What makes a learning environment feel welcoming to all? When have you felt truly included in a class, group project, workshop, or other learning setting – and what were the qualities that helped you ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Alfred University students are learning what it is like to run their own business, thanks to a new initiative in the College of Business that focuses on the importance and benefits of experiential ...

Now, with generative AI disruptions, we are seeing a similar desire to cling to an idealised vision of the modern university.

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...