Teaching

Oklahoma City University is closing two of its education programs amid declining enrollment—and projected teacher shortages.

Christine Harrington explores how faculty can and should closely examine their experiences, beliefs and potential biases so they can understand how they impact student learning.

By Christine Harrington

Students’ happiness with their grade, not instructional quality, is a major driver of the correlation between high grades and high student ratings of instruction, according to a new working paper. Interventions don’t quite work, either.

Instead, it’s the black mirror of higher ed, argues Christopher Schaberg—a teaching method in which both instructors and students lose something.

By Christopher Schaberg

It’s time for all of us on campuses, not just the people in career services, to step up and help offer the competencies employers say they’re looking for, Rachel Toor writes.

By Rachel Toor

Part performance, part protest, a professor’s video got him suspended from Ferris State University. He didn’t want to teach in person in the first place due to COVID-19, and he says he’s retiring. His union says the suspension is an attack on academic freedom.

When Randi Shedlosky-Shoemaker had to step in and teach someone else’s course, she learned that when professors dive into the minutiae of their field, it can leave a lot of students behind.

By Randi Shedlosky-Shoemaker