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What Happening in Higher Ed?

As often as we can, we'll post links to information about innovative, controversial or just plain interesting things going on in higher education. Check back to see what we are thinking about...

What You Need to Know About MOOC's
The Chronicle of Higher Education compiled a useful resource page with a timeline to articles detailing the development of MOOC's (Massive Open Online Courses).
Washington College Instructors are 'Flipping' the Way they Teach'
This Seattle Times article explains how several faculty members from Washington state colleges have flipped their classrooms. Interesting stuff!
7 Things You Should Know About... Flipped Classrooms (pdf)
Educause briefly discusses Flipped Classrooms and the implications for teaching and learning in this 2012 document.

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Browse the Stacks

LB2300-2430 Higher education

LB2326.4-2330 Institutions of higher education

LB2331.7-2335.8 Teaching personnel

LB2341 Supervision and administration. Business management

LB2361-2365 Curriculum

LB2371-2372 Graduate education

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Subject Headings

Use these subject headings in the library catalog and in WorldCat:

College Teaching

Education, Higher

Educational Evaluation

Grading and Marking

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About the Teaching Resource Center

The Christopher Center is the home of the Teaching Resource Center (TRC) which is located in the 4th floor Faculty Study. The TRC regularly sponsors workshops and other programs to help VU faculty strive for excellence in teaching and promote active learning.

To find out more about the Teaching Resource Center, visit the TRC website or call (219) 464-5960. Upcoming workshop information is also listed on their site.

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Books in our Collection

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses - Arum, Richard

Call Number: LA227.4 .A78 2011

Are undergraduates really learning anything once they get to college? The answer is no. As troubling as their findings are, the authors argue that for many faculty and administrators this conclusion will come as no surprise and is the expected result of a student body distracted by socializing or working and an institutional culture that puts undergraduate learning close to the bottom of the priority list.

The Art & Craft of College Teaching: A Guide for New Professors & Graduate Students - Rotenberg, Robert Louis

Call Number: LB2331 .R64 2007

Provides a hands-on, quick-start guide to the college classroom for those who are facing their first five years as independent teachers. In it, you’ll find the answers to some of college teachings most common questions: How do college students learn most effectively? What are the questions to consider when you develop a course for the first time? How can you help students become better thinkers? Why is the assessment of student learning important to the classroom teacher?

Developing Learner-Centered Teaching: A Practical Guide for Faculty - Blumberg, Phyllis

Call Number: LB2331 .B55 2009

Developing Learner-Centered Teaching offers a step-by-step plan for transforming any course from teacher-centered to the more engaging learner-centered model. Filled with self-assessments and worksheets that are based on each of the five practices identified in Maryellen Weimer's Learner-Centered Teaching, this groundbreaking book gives instructors, faculty developers, and instructional designers a practical and effective resource for putting the learner-centered model into action.

Professing To Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University - Neumann, Anna

Call Number: LB1778.2 .N475 2009

Drawing on interviews with seventy-eight professors in diverse disciplines and fields at five major American research universities, Anna Neumann describes how tenured faculty shape and disseminate their own disciplinary knowledge while attending committee meetings, grading exams, holding office hours, administering programs and departments, and negotiating with colleagues. By exploring the intellectual activities pursued by these faculty and their ongoing efforts to develop and define their academic interests, Professing to Learn directs the attention of higher education professionals and policy makers to the core aim of higher education: the creation of academic knowledge through research, teaching, and service.

What the Best College Teachers Do - Bain, Ken

Call Number: LB2331 .B34 2004

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe in two things: that teaching matters, and that students can learn. Bain describes examples of ingenuity and compassion, of students' discoveries of new ideas and the depth of their own potential. --From publisher's description

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