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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.

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.

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.

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.

CTL is hosting a webinar by Edward Burger on Thursday, Nov. 1

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.

Good D&D topic or book group lead!

A guide for students, parents, teachers, nurses, guidance counselors, school psychologists, and other school staff

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.

Good event lead!

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

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

Most teachers have a pet assignment-their favorite, even if it isn't the most important. Jason B. Jones describes his, and calls for other examples.

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.