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There has been a lot of buzz in higher education lately about the flipped classroom model for teaching and learning. It's not as easy as it appears, and it's not as new as others would have us believe.

Provides a case analysis of a Massive, Open, Online Course (MOOC) taught at Stanford University. The professor wanted to provide high quality course content, engage students, offer free and discounted readings, enable peer evaluation of term papers and study the course to improve it.

Learning students’ names may seem trivial but helps with two kinds of interactions that make a significant difference in students’ undergraduate experience: faculty-student interaction and student-student interaction

By “Decoding” what an expert does so that he or she does not get stuck at the bottleneck, we can spell out crucial operations, the “critical thinking” of a discipline.

Peer review provides informed considerations of a candidate’s teaching that student ratings cannot address: breadth, depth, and rigor of course objectives and materials; patterns of and procedures for course management; and a contextualized sense of the interactions between teacher and students as a whole.

What is reflection's role in service-learning? Reflection is a key component of service-learning; in fact, reflection is the link between the service and the learning.

This site provides a number of resources and suggestions for designing and delivering effective lectures.

Service-Learning is an engaged pedagogy, premised on experiential education as the foundation for intellectual, moral, and civic growth

Many faculty are beginning to experiment with social media, incorporating Facebook, Twitter, and other services into their classes. What are the legal implications of the use of social media in teaching? What should faculty know before trying them out?

Teaching portfolios: formatively, the portfolio helps you reflect systematically and regularly upon your teaching; summatively, portfolios provide a much more comprehensive and accurate picture of your teaching than any other single device.