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The key question for higher-education institutions is how the overwhelming majority of students who do not go abroad will learn about the world and develop the intercultural skills they will need as citizens and workers. To address this question, institutions will need to be very clear about what knowledge, attitude, and skills students must learn, where and how they will acquire them, and what constitutes evidence of such learning.

Google launched an open source course building web application for developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring course material online, track student engagement (with web traffic and surveys), and evaluate performance.

This article is used in our Course Design Institutes and provides a creative look at critical thinking as related to Perry's cognitive development theory

No one mentioned teaching portfolios in the professional-development seminars I attended as a doctoral student, so when I encountered requests for that item (or the vaguer "evidence of teaching effectiveness") in a handful of job calls last year, I balked.

This is the home page for UCAT at Ohio State. The University Center for the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT) exists to assist all those who teach at The Ohio State University to excel in teaching, support student learning, and experience the satisfaction that results from teaching well. Visit our site for upcoming events, community opportunities, an explanation of our services, a library of resources, and much more.

Students may sometimes be more impacted by informal communication and impromptu life lessons than by class material. Have you considered your "invisible curriculum" lately?

This document helps instructors interpret the results from SEIs here at Ohio State and gives them suggestions for how to improve areas where they might want to raise their scores.

Interesting ideas on how to make your class relevant to your students (especially first-years) and connect to their intellectual development.

Great examples from ITA Development Programs around the US.

On 21 May 2012, OSU hosted a second video-concert/conference with the French blues group, Moussu T e lei Jovents (Provençal for "Mr. T and the Youngsters") from La Ciotat/Marseille. Sponsored by an LT eLearning Professional Development Grant, with matching funds from the Department of French and Italian and the Foreign Language Center, this event allowed students in French 631 ("Bringing Down the House") to sing along and engage in dialogue with the two leading musicians of the group.

Study indicates that graduate students who teach develop better research skills than those who only conduct research.