Last semester I reinvented English composition as a community-service learning course. My students did the usual work of any composition course — developing basic writing skills, crafting narrative ...
Survey courses in my department (“The Best-Laid Teaching Schemes,” The Chronicle, March 11) are different from most of our other courses in that they are meant to provide at least a nodding ...
For decades, Yale University’s art history survey course, covering the evolution of art from 1300 to today, has been one of the department’s most popular offerings. But the school is now eliminating ...
Researchers sometimes ask, “What is the best way to learn my subjects’ characteristics?” Often, the answer is simply to “just ask them!” The survey is a popular research tool that comes with ...
Co-administered departments work in partnership with IDP to create and manage online course evaluations. IDP creates the framework for the evaluations with department coordinators responsible for ...
Regarding Wight Martindale Jr.’s op-ed “This Old Man, He Teaches History” (Nov. 17): After several decades in a business-school classroom, I can concur with the author’s “rule No. 1,” his emphasis on ...
Annual spending on college course materials fell to a decade low last academic year, due in large part to the continuing shift toward digital materials. But a new study finds that college students ...