Faculty members tend to be skeptical about attempts to go beyond grading with standardized definitions and measures of what students should learn -- the so-called student learning outcomes accreditors ...

The office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for Student Success supports the continuous improvement of student learning with efforts to assess that learning at every level, from campus-wide to the ...

Last spring eighth-grade students at Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., created and shared lessons on the science and ethics of genetics in conjunction with the National Institute ...

Together with colleagues at the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), the team at Getting Smart is working to support high-quality project-based learning (PBL). We asked learning experts what’s working ...

Forward-looking universities are expanding the traditional student transcript into a more complete digital representation of learning inside and outside the classroom. Former Stanford University (CA) ...

UMass Lowell is an inaugural partner in the MSC; this national project has grown out of a 2013 Massachusetts state pilot project to its current stature. It currently engages 88 campuses across 12 ...

I have the Self-Directed Learning course to thank for many accomplishments…SDL allowed me to think about my passions in an academic setting. Without this course I would not have had the tools to ...

The American Council on Education and Universities Canada have reiterated their longstanding opposition to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s AHELO (Assessment of Higher ...

But will they actually learn anything? That’s a seemingly obvious question some universities and colleges are struggling to answer — and, in some cases, trying to avoid. And where there is information ...