Tag archives for High-Impact Educational Practices
A Different View of Plagiarism
Our UNG English department had an interesting faculty development workshop right before classes started, and I thought its message would be helpful for readers of this blog. The workshop was…
UNG Teaching Excellence Award for Non-Tenure Track Faculty 2018
Teaching Excellence Award for Non-Tenure Track Faculty The Teaching Excellence Award for Non-Tenure Track Faculty recognizes those whose work advances the quality and practice of instruction, demonstrates their success in…
CTLL Summer Reading List: How Your Teaching Can Become More Effective
With summer having officially arrived as of last week, we're pleased to present to you our first-ever CTLL Summer Reading List. The team here at Teaching Academic would like to extend…
Apply for Faculty Academy on High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs)
UNG Faculty are invited to apply for the fifth Faculty Academy on High-Impact Educational Practices (HIPs). For a description of high-impact practices (HIPs), see the Association of American Colleges and…
2017-2018 Research-Based Teaching Series Call for Proposals
UNG faculty and teaching staff are invited to submit a proposal to conduct a teaching workshop as part as the 2017-2018 RBTS. Workshops must feature activities and approaches founded in…
Research-Based Teaching Series 2016-2017
The Research-Based Teaching Series (RBTS) had its final workshop for the 2016-2017 academic year. Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CTLL), RBTS…
Enabling ALL Students via Analytics
Eric Westervelt, an educational correspondent for NPR, wrote a very interesting article in the Learning & Tech section entitled “The Higher Ed learning Revolution: Tracking Each Student’s Every Move.” In the…
Finding the Classroom: Conceptualizing Reality in Higher Education
“Publics are asked to accommodate to an objectified ‘reality,’ marked off and demarcated in cost-benefit terms. It is reified, and ‘given’; we are all being required to sublimate our private…
No Time for Tolerance
Tolerance is not enough. Too often, we look at diversity with a superficial mindset or view it as a panacea. We talk of “tolerance” and think that we have contributed…