by: Doug Ward, Associate professor of journalism, Associate director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas   Three universities in the Bay View Alliance have helped generate a national conversation about the way teaching is evaluated. The three institutions, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the University of Kansas, are part of a project known as TEval,which is working to create a more nuanced approach to evaluating … [Read more...]

Please join the ASCN for an upcoming webinar on October 24, Collaborative Dynamics in Collective STEM Reform Initiatives. The registration deadline is Tuesday, October 22. Register here: bit.ly/ASCNwebCollab (full link here: https://ascnhighered.org/ASCN/webinars/2019/collab_dynamics/index.html) Collaborative Dynamics in Collective STEM Reform Initiatives Thursday, October 24, 2019 11:00 am PT | 12:00 pm MT | 1:00 pm CT | 2:00 pm ET Presenter: Lucas Hill, University of … [Read more...]

By: George Rehrey - Since 2015, Indiana University Bloomington faculty from more than 28 different programs have participated in the Learning Analytics Fellows Program. Facilitated by the Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success (CLASS), the program empowers faculty to use student-information-systems data to conduct scholarly research about student success at the course, program and institutional levels. According to an article recently published in a special issue of the Journal of … [Read more...]