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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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Description Some faculty may find it useful to have their students access certain public online services (e.g., blogs, wikis, social media tools, etc.) as part of their course work. It is up to the faculty member to evaluate the educational value of such activities, but it is also a responsibility of the faculty member to protect their students and the institution from any risks associated with using such non-institutional resources.

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.

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

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

Interesting article that focus on how peers can evaluate digital scholarship, but also has implications for evaluation of different types of scholarship more generally.

CRLT's latest Occasional Paper describes how a wide range of instructors at Michigan use online collaboration tools to enhance student engagement and course management.

Like Otterbein, the University of Michigan now uses Google for its email. This occasional paper describes how faculty there have used the Google tools in their courses.

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.

Great for a tweet!