MIT is right; Harvard is wrong.

Updates on two alternative grading projects

We’re preparing Ph.Ds. who lack basic knowledge about how universities work.

How an email from my dean and a forced office move inspired a days-long crying jag and the discovery that I’m autistic.

Plus more on AI, and alternative grading in large courses

How to implement pedagogical values within logistical constraints

"It’s not: do you have integrity or do you not. It’s: are there conditions in place that allow people to act with integrity?” “One of the things that alternative grading can do is to help shift studen...

No matter how skilled, thoughtful, and well prepared professors are—or how motivated and engaged their students might be—things sometimes go wrong. In th...

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

Emily Pitts Donahoe shares what we can learn about grades from an “emerging failure” on episode 588 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

What We Learned and Where We Might Go Next

Some existing discourse

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

A guest post by Noël Ingram

Most books and resources devoted to professional development focus on strategies that faculty can use to create a positive learning environment for our students, but generally assume that everything w...

Helping students read the word and world-system one lens at a time

<p>It can be challenging to manage all the responsibilities associated with teaching, advising students, and engaging in research and service to your department, college, or discipline. Reflecting on ...

In this episode, many of the organizers of this year’s conference join Sharona and Bosley to preview the upcoming conference and talk about some o...

A happy accident

In-class structured essays and no-tech classrooms helped build confidence and skills.