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The SAGES program at Case Western Reserve University has been a major part of the university’s effort to make students aware, from the moment they set foot on campus, of the benefits of a seminar approach to learning. But do students perceive the benefits of seminars? Do they understand why there m...

Many factors go into creating a successful flipped classroom, including the creation and curation of materials and activities for students to engage with outside of class. Many students may not necessarily be prepared to best take advantage of these new ways of teaching and may need to be persuaded ...

Case Western Reserve University is up for its decennial accreditation, which will include a site visit April 13-14 by the members of Higher Learning Commission. An important part of the requirements for accreditation is that courses and programs of study have specified learning outcomes and assessm...

The serious problem of sexual harassment on college campuses has exploded in the news, with reports from all over the nation about the high rates of incidence and the problematic responses by universities in dealing with complaints. This has raised some questions in the minds of Case Western Reserv...

Team teaching can take many forms. In its purest form, it consists of two or more instructors being involved in every aspect of a course, enabling students to benefit from the different perspectives that scholars can bring to the same topic, thus showing them that knowledge is not often dichotomousl...

Educational Services for Students (ESS) and the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will offer two sections of UNIV 400C (Future Faculty Certificate Program) for graduate and professional students who might be interested in future careers as faculty members. The two s...

One common complaint among faculty is what to do about the use of laptops and smartphones during class by students. On the one hand, these devices are powerful learning tools that enable students to have a world of knowledge at their fingertips that can be retrieved in an instant. It also enables th...

As the fall semester winds down, now is an ideal time to consider how to design a quality course for the upcoming semesters. Well-designed courses—those that maximize learning by students—do not happen by accident. They are the result of careful planning to make sure all the key elements—content, te...

People spend large chunks of time in classes during their formal education and yet, after it is all over, they tend to remember only a few things here and there. This raises the question of what makes some ideas "stick" in the minds of people long after they heard them, while other ideas seem to mag...

With the increased emphasis in college on writing essays, papers and reports, plagiarism is a very real possibility. No teacher likes to think his/her students plagiarize, but the reality is that, for a variety of reasons, some students may be tempted to do so. At the next University Center for Inn...