I’ve just returned for a two-day meeting where groups of scholars tried to determine what might constitute “best practices” in introductory undergraduate courses in several disciplines. Three of the six groups in attendance were historians (US, European, World) and it was very interesting to watch the way the three groups approached their charge. Each group…
Tag: Peer Review
Open Classrooms
One of the central tenets of faculty practice is that we generally keep what happens in our classrooms to ourselves. Beyond the occaisonal visit by a colleague and the anecdotes we love to share about our students, only rarely do we open our classrooms up to public inspection. Given our mania for peer reviewed publications,…