by Mary Taylor Huber and Pat Hutchings One of the Bay View Alliance’s main goals is to explore strategies that leaders can use to make evidence-based teaching practices the “new normal” in higher education. Yet, as we point out in two new reports (Huber and Hutchings, 2021a; Huber and Hutchings, 2021b), getting to this new norm involves two kinds of shift.1 One is to arrive at a point where faculty are teaching better. The other is to build a departmental culture that supports ongoing … [Read more...]
Michael Dennin Speaks at IU’s Learning Analytics Summit: Identifying Faculty Strengths and Addressing the Transfer Function at the Institutional Level
By: Annabella Melvin Indiana University’s Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success (CLASS) recently hosted “Data-Informed Stories, Transformational Journeys: Indiana University’s 3rd Annual Learning Analytics Summit” on May 12-14, via Whova. According to George Rehrey, Director of CLASS, the purpose of the annual summit is to bring together faculty, staff, and administrators who share an interest in fostering student success through the use of big data and analytical … [Read more...]
KU psychology professor to lead the Bay View Alliance
Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, a professor of psychology and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas, has been named director of the Bay View Alliance. She succeeds Lorne Whitehead, a professor of physics and astronomy and a special advisor on entrepreneurship, innovation and research at the University of British Columbia, who had led the BVA since its founding in 2011. Whitehead has assumed the role of immediate past director and will remain a member of the … [Read more...]