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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."

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.

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.

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

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

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.

"Using eportfolios to encourage responsible feedback"

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