The identities of first-generation college students are complex. There is no agreed-upon definition of what qualifies a student as...

The sustained assessment of student learning is the most effective means of ensuring the delivery of an institution's mission. The hard...

While improvement should be the intent behind assessment practices in higher education, the subsequent assessment of the implemented...

Every college and university has a mission, and every program and course has intended outcomes, but without assessment, all of these...

Since the dawn of the "assessment movement" in higher education in the 1980s, pinning down a broadly shared concrete definition has...

One of the most formative yet mundane things that a teacher ever told me was, "I don't know." It didn't happen until I was in college. I...

I've had the unique privilege and responsibility of teaching college faculty how to be better educators, and, candidly, I know that many...

The importance of visuals in course design cannot be overstated. Most instructional designers and educators don't have a background in...

Identifying learning objectives can seem deceptively simple. As such, educators and instructional designers can often rush the process...

The online classroom is very different from the physical classroom; no argument there. However, "different" is not inherently less than....

When I was a little girl in elementary school, once a month we would visit the computer lab full of Apple Macintosh Classics with small...

One of the best pieces of advice that I ever received as an educator is “remember how hard it was for you to learn.” This thinking is...

In education, intrinsic motivation can be described as when a student’s desire to learn takes priority over all other motivations. Sounds...