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We used Robin DeRosa's "Rule of 2" to help faculty identify critical priorities in the shift to remote learning. Now she's back with a framework for longer-term adaptation of our courses, curricula, and institutions.

The new ACRL Framework for Information Literacy gives a higher priority to understanding how knowledge is produced and shared. This article discusses ways that could play out in the design of library services. How could it affect your course and curriculum design?

Active learning in the classroom can increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes but how can instructors be sure to include introverts in an environment that tends to favor extroverts? The article outlines a framework for thinking about engaging all learners without leaving introverts behind and details some simple techniques for doing so.

This article makes a smart distinction between students' abilities to accomplish a task online (which may be overstated) and their framework for critically evaluating that task, and the tool they use.

A group of faculty at the 2017 GLCA Rubrics for Liberal Arts Learning provide a framework for designing and assessing civic engagement projects.

How do joint enterprise, mutual engagement and shared repertoire play out in your classes? (This is from the GLCA/GLAA Center for Teaching and Learning, which solicits your contributions.)

Useful framework for identifying "empirical generalizations", "theoretical statements", and "epistemic assumptions" when we look at the literature on learning, and thinking about how they might be more or less applicable to our work.

As you think about adding your course-specific questions to the college evaluation form, what feedback will be most useful to you? (The start-stop-continue framework referenced in this article sounds promising.)

As we wrap up this semester's projects and start thinking about next year's, Dr. Ruben Puentedura's model of the functions of technology in a course provides a useful framework.

"What do students need to know from their major in order to meet their civic obligations at work and in their local and global communities?" This report from AAC&U provides an intriguing framework for a department exploring how its majors are (and aren't) exposed to the public aspects of the discipline.

Some interesting suggestions here (and in the "Part 2" post) for books on teaching and learning "that provide a new framework, new research, or new ideas on how to develop a strong institutional practice." Anything look interesting for our next book club?

Xavier University of Louisiana uses the "deliberative discussion" framework in a public speaking class to facilitate community conversations about current political issues.