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Quick Reads


Below you will find a collection of quick reads on big issues in higher education, subdivided by topic. The idea is to satiate or stimulate your curiosity about topics and trends in faculty development, higher education, and teaching and learning. All are jargon-free, yet informative. Some even have immediate take-aways and applications to your classes and career. So scroll through each category and enjoy!

Topics

Teaching and Learning

  1. A Matter of (Teaching) Style: Active Learning and Student Identities Inside Higher Ed
  2. Why Students Should Write in All Subjects: Writing improves learning by consolidating information in long-term memory. Edutopia
  3. Asynchronous vs. Synchronous: How to Design for Each Type of Learning CatlinTucker
  4. Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms Vanderbilt University
  5. The Neuroscience Behind Productive Struggle Edutopia
  6. Completing a Face-To-Face Course Online Following A Campus Mandate The Scholarly Teacher
  7. Education When Information Is Free Inside Higher Ed
  8. Teaching Research in the First-Year Writing Classroom in the U.S. Inside Higher Ed
  9. Understanding Adoption of New Teaching Strategies through a Behavioral Change Model The Scholarly Teacher
  10. The Dangers of Fluent Lectures: A study says smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking they've learned more than they actually have -- potentially at the expense of active learning. Inside Higher Ed
  11. Teachers Still Believe in 'Learning Styles' and Other Myths About Cognition Education Week
  12. Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom PNAS
  13. Learner-Centered Teaching: 10 Ideas for Getting Started Faculty Focus
  14. How a Math Class Sparked Students' Engagement in Their Community The Chronicle of Higher Education
  15. Technology in the Classroom: What the Research Tells Us Inside Higher Ed
  16. An Engineering Professor Asked His Colleagues to Help Him Analyze His Teaching. Here’s What He Learned. The Chronicle of Higher Education
  17. How to Create a Syllabus The Chronicle of Higher Education
  18. What Students Want Colleges to Know About How They Learn EdSurge
  19. Which Should Come First: Problem-Solving or Instruction? The Learning Scientists
  20. Do Your Students Learn by Rote? Or Can They Recognize Patterns? The Chronicle of Higher Education
  21. Digital Storytelling at TTU Springborgphoto
  22. A Nobel prize-winning physicist identified three simple steps to mastering any subject Quartz
  23. Ending The Semester with Reflection Notre Dame Learning
  24. Writing effectively means shaping your words in light of whom you are writing to and why Inside Higher Ed
  25. Improve learning by thinking about learning by Todd Zakrajsek (Video) YouTube

Online Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Assessment

Student Success

Accessibility & Inclusion

Faculty Development

Future & New(er) Faculty

Big Issues in Higher Education