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I recently attended two assessment-related conferences: the AALHE (Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education) 7th Annual Conference and the SAARC (Student Affairs […]

“Magic mirror on the wall – who is the fairest of them all?” spoken by the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs […]

It is springtime and that means lawns are growing. What do you do to help your lawn along in the spring? Many people just start […]

Most students who enter colleges need basic math skills to succeed in college-level mathematics. Therefore, most colleges provide “a sequence of developmental mathematics courses that […]

A successful instructional designer not only needs to be excelling in design and development, but also needs to be a leader, a change agent, and […]

Begging the Question: Strategies to Increase Student Performance If you’re an instructional designer or an instructor, you undoubtedly know a lot about questions. You know […]

The Textbook Problem The affordability of, and accessibility to, lower cost course resources such as textbooks and supplementary materials in higher education is a growing […]

The primary reason instructors are interested in integrating real world tasks into the classroom stems from a belief that learning that emulates real life is […]

One of the challenges with assessment is answering the “so-what” question. After the initial nationwide calls for assessment more than three decades ago, most institutions […]

“If you can learn to tolerate change, ambiguity, and uncertainty, you will be successful in this field.” That was the answer my supervisor gave me […]

In the online higher education community, course designers are constantly trying to develop courses that reach beyond the learner simply staring at a static screen. […]