Centre for Teaching Excellence

In general, research has found student evaluations of teaching to be a valid and reliable means to evaluate instruction. However, it is necessarily true that student evaluations reflect the students' perceptions and points-of-view. Therefore, it is important to view course evaluations as just one measure of teaching effectiveness-a set of data that can be used alongside peer evaluation of teaching, instructor self-evaluation, and other measures.

EcoMUVE is an exciting new curriculum research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that uses immersive virtual environments to teach middle school students about ecosystems and causal patterns

In this nine-minute video I explain how to use a feature in Microsoft Word to automatically insert text (with hyperlinks) into a student's essay. Doing so saves the instructor a significant amount of time, and provides the student with "just in time" resources.

An instructor explains how and why she switched from providing written comments on student assignments to audio comments. 

The use of student evaluations of their professors. 

This is Trent Batson's blog about ePortfolios. Trent is affiliated with the Association of Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based, Learning (AAEEBL).

This is Daniel Familia's ePortfolio. He's a student at LaGuardia Community College. In his ePortfolio, he describes his Educational and Career Goals, his Achievements, his reflections on his courses, and more.