About

The purpose of this blog is for discussions about teaching and learning in higher education today.  The Teaching & Learning Commons blog welcomes comments by faculty on topics such as

• Assumptions about how people learn and how to teach, and theories about learning and teaching
• How to genuinely improve student learning outcomes
• Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)
• How to change/transform an academic community or campus into one that values and rewards teaching
• Strengths and weaknesses in higher education pedagogy/andragogy
• Personal reflections on the meaning or spirit of teaching
• Why you became a college teacher in the first place; why you remain a college teacher today
• Can research be integrated with teaching?
• Your greatest failures and successes in teaching
• What you have learned about teaching, students, your discipline, yourself as a result of being a college teacher

The most immediate audience for this blog is the faculty of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia (USA), but it is open to college and university faculty anywhere in the world.  Please keep all comments concise and respectful.  Thank you. Alan Altany