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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.

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

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

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.

Thought this was very timely, as we look forward to how the CTL fits into the rapid changing roles within Otterbein.

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.

Some faculty argue that in the growing emphasis on job-related skills, the cultivation of important intellectual traits is getting short shrift.

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.

Why is there such a discrepancy between what employers want in a college graduate, and what we as educators think they want?

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.

This Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their blended learning initiatives.

The International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal freely available online. The mission of the International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is to encourage the study of practices and pedagogies associated with ePortfolio in educational settings.

This site from Carnegie Mellon University provides practical strategies to address teaching problems across the disciplines. These strategies are firmly grounded in educational research and learning principles.