It's time to showcase outstanding doctoral dissertation research in educator preparation! Applications for AACTE's 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award are due by Thursday, August 14, 2014.

The award recognizes excellence in doctoral dissertation research that contributes to the knowledge base of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation. Individuals earning a doctorate in education from January 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014, are eligible for…

Assessing What Your Students Know, Want to Know, and Have Learned

One way to measure student learning quickly and efficiently is to use KWLs. Created by Donna Ogle, the letters KWL stand for "what we know", what we want to know", and "what we learned" (Ogle, 1986). This type of assessment is fantastic for instructors to gauge each student's prior knowledge.

The 2014 Online Teaching Showcase, hosted by the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching (CIRT), started on June 3rd and will go on until June 30th.  The topic for this year's showcase is Active Learning Strategies and the presentations include a wealth of information.  Please make sure to view the presentations and leave comments and feedback for the presenters during the month of June.  You can get to the Online Teaching Showcase by clicking here.

Emily Bergquist and Rick Holbeck presented "Are You Teaching What You Think You Are Teaching?" The focus of the presentation was on the use of classroom assessment techniques in the online classroom. Nicole Rhoades and Marquita Elliott, along with Dr. Jean Mandernach, presented on faculty development initiatives. They investigated the attendance, passing and signup rates of different professional development classes based on format and mode. Click here for the conference program.

Grand Canyon University

Fall 2014 Honors Symposium on

Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship

Sponsored by the Eta Chi Chapter, Delta Mu Delta

Ken Blanchard College of Business

All Students, Staff, Faculty and Alumni of Grand Canyon University are invited to submit a paper addressing "Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship."

Specific topics may be drawn from science, business, education, the arts and healthcare, among other areas. Submissions will be considered for…

An article by online faculty member Crystal McCabe and Ben Vilkas, an online full-time faculty manager, has been published on the Faculty Focus blog. The article, "Promoting Students' Self-Efficacy in the Online Classroom," provides ways for instructors to increase students' confidence in their abilities to complete new and sometimes daunting tasks. Click here to read the article.

To read information that may be relevant to online faculty, go to:

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/digital-humanities-digitizing-humanity?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=Email+marketing&utm_campaign=EDUCAUSE

We invite you to participate in the upcoming IABE 2015 Conference:

IABE-2015 Orlando, Florida, USA : Winter Conference, March 22-24, 2015:
Submission Deadline: January 11, 2015!

The mission of IABE conference is to create a platform where academics, consultants and practitioners from economic fields can present their research results, can exchange their experiences or can find business solutions.

We invite papers/articles, abstracts, or cases on topics related to research, practice, and…