Auburn University
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For a comprehensive set of resources on course design, visit the website for Teaching Support Services at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

In January 2007, Harvard University released a committee's report which proposes making changes to improve the quality of teaching, enhance student learning, and reward successful teachers. Click here for the report:

Jim Groccia, Director of Auburn University's Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning was quoted in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the increasing usefulness and importance of teaching and learning centers in U.S. higher education. Click here for the article:

To find out if students learned anything in our classes, James Lang, frequent contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education, reiterates the value of asking students the right questions at the right time. Lang notes that if you ask students at the end of the semester if they learned anything, their responses are accurate when "gauged against external measures of their learning (such as exams)." He suggests asking students at mid-semester to describe "what you can do that will help everyone learn as much as possible in the final weeks of the semester." The Biggio Center offers Small Group Instructional Feedback services each semester, and the AU student evaluation of teaching instrument will allow insertion of specific questions. Consult Lang's March 9, 2007 article in The Chronicle, "Did You Learn Anything?" in hard copy, or log onto your Chronicle account:

Focus on Faculty is a teaching and learning newsletter published by the Brigham Young University Faculty Center. Issues contain articles on teaching and learning, faculty development, and other topics in higher education. Hard copies will be available at the Biggio Center. You can also view back issues online:

Integrative Learning: Opportunities to Connect is a national project sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Aimed at promoting integrative learning in undergraduate education, this three-year project worked with ten campuses to develop and assess advanced models and strategies to foster students' abilities to integrate their learning over time. This report, with an overview by Carnegie and AAC&U staff and accounts from each of the participating campuses (see menu on the left), aims to make the project's work available to other campuses interested in helping students pursue their learning in more intentional, connected ways.

The Biggio Center arranged for Associate Provost of Academic Affairs, Sharon Gaber; and Chairperson of the Academic Honesty Committee, Charlotte Sutton, to speak to the campus community about Auburn University's Academic Honesty code and preventing academic dishonesty. The Auburn Plainsman reported on the session in its March 8, 2007 issue.

Podcasts from the Merrow Report are available here: