Online Education: Questions Every Faculty Member Should Ask
If we had been asked if we were prepared to teach online before teaching our first online courses, the answer would have been a naïve
Carol Bormann Young
August 8, 2008
Articles
Aligning Students’ Expectations With Realities of Online Education
Students’ perceptions of what an online course will be like are often quite different from how it really is. That is why Jim McKeown, assistant
Rob Kelly
August 7, 2008
Translating On-Ground Courses into Effective Online Education
Creating a Web-based course from a current, successful on-ground course is difficult and, at best, can be considered a translation process. In the past, instructors
Sherion Jackson
August 6, 2008
Learning Styles are Important to Teaching Critical Thinking Online
Online courses offer several advantages over face-to-face courses when it comes to teaching critical thinking (analysis, evaluation, and deduction), according to according to Linda Armstrong,
Rob Kelly
August 5, 2008
A Brief Statement of My Philosophy of Teaching
I am committed to the liberal arts ideal that education should familiarize students with the intellectual, spiritual, artistic, and scientific traditions that women and men
Michael Glaser
August 4, 2008
Four Teaching Maxims That Endure
As part of a special section in a recent issue of Teaching Psychology, Bill McKeachie, author of the best-known book on college teaching, the venerable
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
August 3, 2008
Is There a Connection Between Learning Styles and Preferences?
Start with a list of 12 familiar ways to learn course content: reading texts or other printed material; writing term papers, participating in group activities in class, doing major team projects, doing cases, taking multiple choice exams, giving presentations to the class, learning about different theories, doing practical exercises, solving problems, doing library research, or exercising a lot of creativity. Now hypothesize as to which learning style prefers which of these approaches to learning.
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
August 2, 2008
An Update on Learning Styles/Cognitive Styles Research
Research on learning styles now spans four decades. The amount of work ebbs and flows with more flowing recently. Interestingly, work on learning styles continues
Maryellen Weimer, PhD
August 1, 2008
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July 25, 2008
Creating Successful Interdisciplinary Programs
The University of Oklahoma’s (OU) College of Arts and Sciences has a long history of successful interdisciplinary programs. Each was created under different circumstances without a standard process, but they all share several characteristics that have helped them thrive. Academic Leader recently spoke with Paul B. Bell, Jr., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for instruction, about what makes these interdisciplinary programs successful…
Rob Kelly
July 19, 2008