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"Definitions of quality in higher education: A synthesis of the literature"

Good for lit.review, discussion piece, or event lead.

What would higher education look like if we stopped measuring it in credit hours? Thought-provoking piece that looks at the history of this basic unit of measure, the impact it's had on higher education, and some possible alternatives.

How can we claim the advantages of online education without losing the most essential triangular configuration--student, teacher and world--in higher education?

In this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a junior faculty member considers how to connect learning in his courses to the university's greater academic objectives and the students' continuing education at large.

New book on gender, family and academe shows how kids affect careers in higher education.

Could be a good D&D topic.

Beth Daugerherty (English dep't) and Sue Constable and Carrie Scheckelhoff (both Education dep't) may be interested in this topic. Previously Sue expressed interest in Maryanne Wolf's work and theories in general, and _Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain_ in particular.

Posted by Saga Briggs on Sunday, July 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment Last year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was publicly accused of "killing students' joy for learning." The OECD publishes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is an assessment that allows educational performances to be examined on a common measure across 34 countries.

David Levy's course at the University of Washington puts technology in its place-in the control of students.

Discussions about socioeconomic class, once taboo, are taking hold on some campuses.

An article from the Chronicle of Higher Education shared by one of our faculty members

Journals that Publish the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning and Address General Issues in Higher Education NOTE: We are in the process of updating CETL's entire Web presence. One of our goals is to change the journals list to a database searchable by discipline and key terms. When we have completed the changes, we will redirect visitors to our new site.

When young people starting their college careers ask me what they should look for when they get to campus, I tell them: find out who the great teachers are. It doesn't matter much what the subject is. Find a real teacher, and you may open yourself to transformation - to discovering whom you might become.

Illustration by Vasava Outbreak alert: six students at the Chicago State Polytechnic University in Illinois have been hospitalized with severe vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach pain, as well as wheezing and difficulty in breathing. Some are in a critical condition.

My research on teaching and learning in higher education began when I was hired as a graduate assistant at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, at Northwestern University, back in the late 1990s. The center had a large library room with tall bookcases lining one wall and deep filing cabinets against another.

Examples come from MFL departments - could be a good reference for people here. ~G.

Tag line: How teaching English as a foreign language made me a better teacher of everything.

Excerpt: There is a discourse of deficiency around students-what they can't do, how "ill prepared" they are-that gets aired at nearly every faculty meeting. We read it in op-eds online. We hear it in state legislatures and in copier rooms. It is the air we breathe, especially if we teach in community colleges. Certain populations of students are considered more deficient than others. These populations are partitioned by institution type and placement level, rather than by race or class. Community college students and students who have landed in developmental classes are considered the most deficient of all. We blame the high schools they came from and, sometimes implicitly, we blame them.