Teaching

Books on social and racial issues get spotlight among freshman reading assignments. This year, one showing up on campus lists focuses on low-income and rural white people, J. D. Vance’s 2016 sociopolitical breakout, Hillbilly Elegy.

Carl Wieman makes an evidence-based plea for better science instruction in a new book on what might be his grandest experiment yet.

They can have unintended consequences, writes Donal O’Shea. And the trick is to find those that actually improve student learning.

Cathy Sandeen looks back at her past predictions and claims about massive open online courses to see how they’ve held up.

Lawmakers who think higher education is broken -- and that “innovation” and more assessment can fix it -- would learn a lot from seeing the learning process up close and personal, Bernard Fryshman writes.

Essay argues the age of big data is the time for professors to reconsider their reliance on the anti-plagiarism business.

Despite recent criticism of student reviews of faculty members, there is a system that’s working, AAUP conference is told.