By Doug Ward The spread of evidence-based teaching practices highlights a growing paradox: Even as instructors work to evaluate student learning in creative, multidimensional ways, they themselves are generally judged only through student evaluations. Read article … [Read more...]

By Doug Ward The Nobel laureate Carl Wieman tells BVA members that nearly all college faculty members want to teach well but that few have both the pedagogical background to make their classes more student-centered and the incentive to do so. He shares his experiences in transforming STEM courses through his Science Education Initiative. Read article … [Read more...]

By Doug Ward We face an enormous challenge in explaining the value of higher education to cash-strapped students and parents, and to legislators who increasingly see education as a means to a very specific end, not as a process of mental development. Read article … [Read more...]