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I am pleased to resume regular posting to this weblog with the announcement that I will be launching, in conjunction with my University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a Faculty Learning Community on Improving Student Research Skills.
Over the previous academic year I was privileged to participate in a Faculty Learning Community on Teaching [...]

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Yesterday I attended the first of three online sessions offered by the Teaching, Learning and Technology Group in cooperation with ACRL on “Collaboration for Information Literacy: Faculty Learning Communities and other Collaborative Approaches to Support and Improve Undergraduate Information Literacy.”  This year, I am fortunate to have been a participant in OCU’s Faculty Learning Community [...]

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EDUCAUSE has published its Top Teaching and Learning Challenges of 2009.
The EDUCAUSE site has a wiki devoted to each of the five challenges, which include “developing 21st-century literacies among students and faculty (information, digital, and visual).”

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The January 2009 Issue of Filtered, the Academic Commons Magazine, is titled New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and contains several articles on technology in liberal higher education.
I am particularly interested in the essay by Michael Wesch (recently named a U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the [...]

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