Center for Teaching and Learning at Otterbein University

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.

Andrew P. Martin loves it when his lectures break out in chaos. It happens frequently, when he asks the 80 students in his evolutionary-biology class at the University of Colorado at Boulder to work in small groups to solve a problem, or when he asks them to persuade one another that the answer they arrived at before class is correct.

...Where math, technology, and education cross

This is a blog by Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University. A group of us at Otterbein recently participated in a webinar he conducted on flipping the classroom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interesting article, especially the part about modeling our failures.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Great for a tweet!

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.