Teaching

Researchers on higher education gather for annual meeting and release a slew of studies on colleges, students and professors.

Authors of new book explain how "blended learning" can improve traditional education, when online interactions can be better than lectures and more.

As the only North American member of the Teacher Training Network for Iraq, U. of Alberta hosts Iraqi professors.

While numbers are up, instructors are in short supply, raising questions about the quality of instruction and viability of moving students to advanced levels.

With federal and state officials, accreditors and others all talking about the importance of assessment, what's going on in classrooms? Assessment, after all, takes place every time a professor gives a test. A new volume of essays, Beyond Tests and Quizzes: Creative Assessments in the College Classroom (Jossey-Bass) argues that assessments in the classroom could be more creative and more useful to the educational process.

In the dining hall and the curriculum, culinary programs are reducing or eliminating the use of oils that can lead to health problems.

Foundation starts two fellowships with aim of infusing education programs with a more clinical curriculum and finding mentors for new teachers.

Historians discuss ways to teach students -- and themselves -- more about the cities where they work and live.

Researchers consider issues specific to foreign-born faculty and ways to help them adjust.

In statewide effort, community colleges in California experiment with new models for "basic skills" instruction and student services.