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

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 interesting online tools.

To MOOC or Not to MOOC? November 29, 2012 - 3:00am By W. Joseph King and Michael Nanfito

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.

As part of the VALUE project, diverse teams of faculty and other academic and student affairs professionals from a wide range of institutions drafted and revised institutional-level rubrics (and related materials) to correspond with the AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes. Each VALUE rubric (listed below) contains the most broadly shared criteria or core characteristics considered to be critical for judging the quality of student work in a particular outcome area.

Good D&D topic or book group lead!

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

Gerald Nelms explains how student plagiarism is very often less of a cut-and-dry crime than it appears. Research shows that successfully avoiding plagiarism-while also paraphrasing and integrating material from sources-requires complex skills that take time and practice to develop. We can see instances of plagiarism as opportunities to help students learn these skills.

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.

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

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

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

Wiley announces new apps to aid in research and teaching, different apps for different disciplines. "Wiley Spotlight Apps are essential for all researchers, faculty, students and professionals."

Food for thought...with implications for our students and for ourselves.

2013 Calendar of Teaching Conferences CETL is in the process of updating our entire Web site. Once the update is new site is online (estimated date, March 1, 2013), you will include a major improvement to this list of conferences. The list will be searchable by topic, date, location, etc.

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.