Center for Teaching and Learning at Otterbein University

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.

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

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

Summary with some useful links to see examples of iPad use (both in higher ed and K12).

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.

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.

Discussions about socioeconomic class, once taboo, are taking hold on some campuses.

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.

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

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."

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

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.

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

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