Last semester, I had the opportunity to do something completely new to me: give the address at NAU’s fall commencement ceremony. …
Michelle Miller, PhD Posts
When I write about classroom atmosphere, it’s usually about ways to open the semester strong: setting high standards and an expectation that the class will be challenging, getting feedback out to students as soon as practical. …
Student effort: Taboo, a third rail, or something we need to be talking about?
Posted in Course Redesign, First-year Learning Initiative, Higher Education, Student Success, Technology, and Trends and Change
I work in public higher education, where cost-quality tradeoffs have become a more-or-less permanent feature of the landscape. …
Building faculty buy-in: Lessons learned and some useful rules
Posted in Course Redesign, First-year Learning Initiative, Higher Education, and Trends and Change
If you are going to have an impact on teaching and learning beyond your own classes and your own students, you need to have the support of fellow faculty. If you’re on the administrative side, this is even more true: You…
I’m far more of a word person than a picture person, but even I get a charge out of the occasional graphic.…