Resources
Blog post by Derek Bruff from a meeting on designing learning spaces. Highlights the need for different types of spaces for different types of learning activities. Includes pictures with different classroom configurations
Examines various ways to teach outside of a traditional classroom setting. Examples include: field trips, service learning and community engagement, and study abroad.
Article by Cynthia J. Brame. Defines and describes the “flipped classroom.” Discusses the theoretical basis and provides additional resources on “flipping” the traditional classroom space.
Excerpts from a post by Marilla Svinicki of University of Texas at Austin for the National Teaching and Learning Forum. Discusses some of the benefits of flipped classrooms. Argues that the flipped classroom is not easy or new. Hosted on Stanford University's Teaching Commons.
Blog post that describes an alternative approach to classroom discussion/debate. Students are not asked to debate but to repeat back the position of their opponents. Then, students are asked to reach a consensus position together.
Researched by J. Prusch and written and adapted by A.M. Pickett. Gives 50 alternatives to lecture for teaching online courses. Examples include: conduct an interview; invite a guest speaker; and student-led discussion. Alternatives could be adapted for face-to-face teaching.
Provides brief instructions on 13 different classroom discussion formats and activities. Examples include: circle of voices, critical debate, and jigsaw.
Chronicle of Higher Ed offers a time line, with links, of the controversial resignation and reinstatement of University of Virginia's president Teresa Sullivan. At the heart of the controversy is disagreement between the school's Board of Visitors and President Sullivan regarding the pace and manner of adopting online learning.
Inside Higher Ed narrates the dismissal of biblical scholar Christopher Rollston after his HuffPo opinion piece about the marginalization of women in biblical texts. The article discusses the relationship of tenure and donor support at a confessional seminary.
Inside Higher Ed narrates the dismissal of venerable biblical scholar Bruce Waltke after his remarks concerning evolution, and discusses issues around academic freedom at confessional seminaries.