Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2026)

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Scholarship of teaching and learning...with a side of snark

Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2025)

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

Making students feel they matter can dramatically improve lecture attendance. Here are ways to do it

We’re back with another Take It or Leave It panel. I invited three colleagues whose work and thinking I admire very much to come on the show and to compress their complex and nuanced thoughts on teach...

Podcast Episode · Professors Talk Pedagogy · 02/19/2025 · 42m

Trust is an important aspect of learning. However, there is little published research on how students perceive its value. In this article, we report on engineering students’ perceptions of the role...

Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2025)

<p>How do you successfully document your teaching? In this collection, you will explore self-study approaches that provide you with an authentic representation of your teaching based on evidence of wh...

Peter Felten + Kassidy Puckett share about relationship-rich education at scale on episode 551 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

What does it mean, to belong? How do belonging and not belonging get experienced/expressed in learning contexts? In networks and communities?I have been teaching for nearly three decades, learning for...

Counterstory Pedagogy showcases the richness of experiences and self-reflection that result from engaging students in counterstory letter writing.

Faculty mentioned empathy, collaboration, individual interactions with students, and sharing personal stories helps build relationships.

Self-subterfuge is a key aspect of academic motivation.

Kristine Johnson + J. Michael Rifenburg share about A Long View of Undergraduate Research on episode 546 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Research on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) has indicated that course design is at least as important as teachers’ performance for student-rated perceived quality and student engagement. Our data...

Kassidy Puckett and Peter Felten summarize over 1,800 responses from faculty regarding barriers to building relationships in higher education.

The Levers that Institutions Can Use for Scaling Improvement Summary In this report, we describe what we mean by equity-based teaching (EBT)–an approach that can support the academic success of Black,...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of giving a keynote at the “Inclusive Lund University” conference, together with my colleagues Rachel Forsyth and Peter Persson. We talked about our recent study (that ha...