Last week, I was fired “reassigned.” Not only was I told that my contract wouldn’t be renewed for next academic ...
Category: ALTLab
ArtfulnessArtfulness
Yesterday’s post was a semi-serious attempt to synthesize the narrative around “academic innovation” in higher education. I say it was ...
A meta #onlinelearning faculty development activityA meta #onlinelearning faculty development activity
In my (simple) mind, one overarching theme of VCU ALTLab‘s online learning faculty development initiative, the Online Learning Experience (OLE), ...
TensionsTensions
The latest and greatest cohort of our intensive online learning faculty development program, the Online Learning Experience (OLE), begins this ...
Announcing ALTfest 2016!Announcing ALTfest 2016!
I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that VCU’s Academic Learning Transformation Festival (ALTfest) is coming back to a theater near you! ...
The communications conundrumThe communications conundrum
Ever since VCU’s Center for Teaching Excellence became the Academic Learning Transformation Lab (ALT Lab), a persistent challenge opportunity has ...
Open faculty developmentOpen faculty development
Last week, at Educause 2015, I had the privilege of sharing the ALT Lab story alongside Gardner Campbell, Tom Woodward ...
“Co-construction of knowledge could break out all over the University!”“Co-construction of knowledge could break out all over the University!”
That’s a quote from Gardner Campbell, Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success at VCU. He said that at ...
The Defaults and Constraints of Teaching in #HigheredThe Defaults and Constraints of Teaching in #Highered
In faculty development generally, and certainly in #VCUALTLab specifically, the goal is often to help professors design new and (presumably) ...
Personality, personalization, and teaching in higher ed.Personality, personalization, and teaching in higher ed.
In a return to the good ol’ days of educational blogging, Martin Weller wrote a blog post that has generated ...