This blog (as part of the Chronicle of Higher Education) explores the very important question about how you define internationalization (one of the key strategic areas for the U of S in the future)?

An interesting article exploring the teaching-research nexus in higher education - ie. the interplay (or not) of teaching and research roles.

An interesting video on a very important skill - time management. It is delivered by Randy Pausch, made famous by his "Last Lecture" at Carnegie Mellon University before he died from Pancreatic Cancer.

Very cool resource on inquiry-based learning from the CILASS project in Arts and Social Sciences at Sheffield.

This is a great resource introducing inquiry-based learning.

The Guardian HE paper in the UK recently published an article highlighting 12 UK blogs on higher education worth following (on things from HE planning, pedagogy, online learning, research, etc.)

This is the website for the Student Course Experience Questionnaire (SCEQ), deisgned to provide the University community with a basis for strategic, faculty level academic development and curriculum review to further enhance the quality of teaching and student learning.

CLASSE is a version of the National Survey of Student Engagement that is designed to be used at the level of an individual course. It is free to use, but requires a note to be sent to the developers (as per the instructions on the website.

An article in EDUCAUSE by Randy Bass. The article is about how the formal curriculum is being disrupted as "high-impact educational practices" and "the experiential co-curriculum" move from the margins of higher education into common practice. He also addresses how the current "participatory culture " and the trend toward "informal learning" are affecting the curriculum. The article concludes with recommendations for instructors on how they can change their teaching practices to "keep pace with our expanded understanding of learning." - the description provided by Christopher Price, Director, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), The College at Brockport, State University of New York.

This is a short piece written in the Wall Street Journal by Ken Bain to accompany the release of his new book - What the Best College Students Do.

Session introducing threshold concepts by Ray Land delivered in October 2011 at UCC in Ireland.

Mike Neary, Dean of Teaching and Learning at University of Lincoln, keynote on Student as Producer at NAIRTL Conference

20 minute mini-lecture Eric Landrum from Boise State University on Perry's Scheme of Intellectual Development prepared for the Boise State Course Design Institute.

The website from the team at Indiana University exploring bottlenecks in student learning as a way to decode the disciplines. Very relevant to

An interesting tool developed at Guelph to support student peer evaluation, assessment and review (PEAR)

David Trottier, from our ICT services on campus at the U of S, has begun a repository of interesting information related to educational technology and instructional/course design.

The recent report from the Council of Ontraio Universities on Degree Level Expectations

An interesting resource for assessing outcomes in HE