The mission of the Center for Learning and Teaching is twofold: to support, promote, and enhance teaching, learning, and research; and to foster innovation.
Inside Higher Ed
Stanford's Graduate School of Business conducts classes on a virtual campus, with avatars, soccer fields and a beach. The program may, if you're the right age, be reminiscent of massive multiplayer online games, like Second Life or Club Penguin.
Faculty Focus
When the instructor begins the discussion thread with multiple levels of open-ended questions, as is often done in the classroom, students can take the conversation in a variety of directions as they respond to what others have said, thus creating a more natural conversation.
Inside Higher Ed
Colleges and corrections departments increasingly are turning to online instruction for incarcerated students. But while those programs may be easier to scale, challenges and questions about quality remain.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In early January, I received an email message from an audio-visual coordinator at the UCLA School of Law asking whether I wanted my spring-semester class to be recorded. I responded, as I have to similar messages in previous years, with a request not to record my class.