In a short editorial written in 1999, Ted Marchese observes: [T]he assessment movement, following 15 years of imprecation and mandate, has produced widely observed rituals of compliance on campus, but […]
When I say that the recent scholarship on teaching literature includes the most interesting and significant work currently going on in higher education, readers should know that I am (wildly!) […]
In Our Underachieving Colleges, Derek Bok relates the rather incredible story of how Eric Mazur, a Harvard physicist, discovered a serious but hidden problem with his teaching and, as a result, changed […]
If a person believes that College Could Be Better, not just marginally so, not just theoretically so, but substantially and actually better, if they believe that changes could actually be made that would result in students learning more and learning more deeply, then she or he is infected with the C2B2 virus or “the idea.”
