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Author Archives: Beth Thornburg
Motivation and Meaning
The Maguire Center has for many years sponsored the Conference on the Professions: an event bringing together legal, theological, and medical professionals to discuss important issues of the day. Their keynote speaker this year was behavioral economist/psychologist Dan Ariely, known … Continue reading
It’s Not Just the Students Who Multitask
I started reading the Chronicle piece entitled “You’re Distracted. This Professor Can Help” feeling very smug and superior. Those foolish students — why do they not realize that their constant response to electronic devices is counterproductive (and it is). Checking … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Students, Technology
Tagged email, meditation, multitasking, Teaching, Technology
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Moving Beyond Text
One of my friends on the national teaching-center scene is Chris Clark, the Assistant Director and Learning Technology Lab Coordinator for the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning at Notre Dame. Chris is also the author of the really helpful … Continue reading
Teaching Lessons from Project Runway
Today’s New York Times has a piece reflecting on Project Runway’s Tim Gunn as a model mentor. His tag line — “Make it Work” — can also ‘work’ for faculty members giving students feedback. In fact, a Tumblr feed called … Continue reading
Death to the Credit Hour?
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching created the credit hour in the early 1900s as part of a pension system for university faculty. It has evolved into a universal measurement of the credit students receive for the classes … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogical Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged Assessment, competencies, credit hour, learning
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Follow CTE on Twitter
CTE has a blog, so could tweeting be far behind? We think of it as one more way to help you keep up with the latest news in higher education, research on teaching & learning, and CTE’s programs and services. … Continue reading
MOOCs for Professor Profit?
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are all the rage these days. Usually they’re free. But a provocative story in the Chronicle highlights a new service that offers “ultra-affordable” MOOCs — and the tuition paid by the online student is split … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Methods, Technology
Tagged cost of higher ed, faculty, MOOC, online education
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Better Research Assignments
While planning our spring semester courses, many of us may be looking for new ways to teach students both content knowledge and research skills. Get a good start with the resources on CTE’s Designing Research Assignments page. In addition, personal help is … Continue reading
Posted in CTE, Students, Teaching Methods
Tagged Information Literacy, liaison librarian, Research
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Helpful or Just Creepy?
My students have reading assignments for every class, and the quality of class discussion depends very much on whether they have read (and even thought about) those pages. Sometimes, especially at this busy time of year, I suspect that not … Continue reading
Posted in Students, Technology
Tagged engagement, reading, students, Technology, textbooks
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Teaching Toolkit
Toward the end of the semester, many of us could use an energizing new teaching idea. Or we may be working on planning a spring course. In either case, here’s a resource full of quick and useful strategies that may … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Methods
Tagged critical thinking, group activities, teaching ideas, teaching resources
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