Filter & Sort
Digital Badges in the Classroom
The "badge" movement has grown mostly in the realm of noncredit work, but instructors at traditional colleges can use them to enhance teaching and learning, too, write Alan Reid and Denise Paster.
How We Respond to Students
Instructors need to be careful to ensure that their comments encourage, writes Andrew Joseph Pegoda.
Decoding Job Ads
What the notices say is only part of what they mean, writes Cheryl E. Ball.
The Poet Applies for a Tenure-Track Position
D. Gilson appeals to the search committee.
How I Spent Summer 'Vacation'
Academics need to explain to others what they do when they don't have teaching duties, writes Eszter Hargittai.
Doing 'Cluster Hiring' Right
There are many advantages to the practice, writes Laura Severin, but it requires strategy and practices that go beyond hiring many professors at once.
Beyond Anecdote
Communications officials owe it to their colleges not to make decisions based on an N of 1, write David Brond and Teresa Valerio Parrot.
Writing Letters of Recommendation
They are an important responsibility, but you don't need to agree every time you are asked, writes Nate Kreuter.