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This article presents one view on classroom rules. The comments open up the floodgates of counter opinions. Comments in this case break down into snarkiness and vitriol; I'm sure that a face-to-face conversation with colleagues about such policies would be much more productive.

Federal agencies are looking at updates to the "Common Rule," which impacts local IRB processes.

The specific rules presented here are most applicable to K-12 institutions. Still, it's an interesting example of the kind of thinking involved for anyone's social media presence.

An interesting set of prompts to help you consider publishing scholarship about your teaching. I'd like to highlight the first sentence of Step 5 - "a primary rule of (the scholarship of teaching and learning) is to use your discipline-based methods first." Don't use your preconceived notions of what education literature looks like, but consider how your study might use your disciplinary ways of knowing.

Good thoughts on how we teach students to think about writing rules, beyond just following them. "What begins as a technicality can end up going pretty deep into the very nature of the writer's task."

A set of principles which apply not only to science labs but any collaboration, department, and scholarly organization. The rules are, of course, not "simple" to do at all, but they are clearly stated and explained.

A personal essay about the ways in which classroom formality (and the lack of it) is affected by the race and class of the professor and students.

Multiple interesting discussions in this episode of the Digital Campus podcast. The first 2 discussions are particularly wiorthwhile. They open with a discussion of the ways U.S. government rules on retaining electronic records will impact the teaching of history, and follow with a discussion of the Open Syllabus Project, which analyzes millions of syllabi collected from the web.

The judge's decision in the copyright suit by publishers against Georgia State University has significant areas which need clarification, and it uses a mechanical principle for determining the amount of a work which can be copied as fair use, but it is generally a pro-education ruling. Of course, it will probably be appealed.

After the Georgia State University ruling came down in 2012 Educause offered a live, interactive webinar featuring Kenneth Crews, one of the leading experts in the area of copyright law and educational fair use. Crews is (was) the director of the Copyright Advisory Office of the Columbia University Libraries. This page provides resources from the webinar, including a recording. However, this recording is of poor quality, especially the final 1/3 of the recording.

The syllabus and the first days of class can help set up the classroom dynamic for the entire semester. Here are the strategies one professor uses to set up expectations for her courses, including rules for class discussion.

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.