Catholic social teaching, the tradition of reflection on social and economic life from modern popes, is optimistic about human life in a way that is usually quite inspiring. So I paid attention during ...

My nomination for the most predictable platitude invoked by university professors when describing the essence of their job is “teaching students to think for themselves.” During my 26 years at the ...

In a much-debated 1983 essay on distance learning, Richard E. Clark, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Southern California, argued that it was beside the point to ask whether ...

Belonging is not a by-product of good teaching but an intentional outcome of inclusive practices. These include healthy dialogue, co-creation and reflective practice, says Patrice Seuwou Belonging is ...

The preparation of teachers in higher education is often built on two pillars: design and pedagogy. The first pillar, course design, covers the formulation of outcomes, the ways in which the outcomes ...

W hen Phoebe Young began working at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an assistant professor of history in 2009, her annual teaching reviews were fairly perfunctory. Everyone knew, she says, ...

In my more than 40 years of teaching college, I’ve found that as I’m imparting knowledge to others, I learn lessons myself. The greatest lessons that I’ve learned, however, are in team-taught courses ...

When undergraduate students enroll in a class taught by sociology professor Amy Quark, they shouldn't expect routine lectures and PowerPoint slides. Instead, students immerse themselves in hands-on ...