Coulter Faculty Commons
Your Partner in Teaching & LearningThe Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC) advances excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship by partnering with the Western Carolina University community through collaboration, creation, and celebration.
We partner with all instructors, staff who teach, and graduate student assistants.
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Teaching @WCU: A CFC Blog
Popcorn & Pedagogy Oct 25, 12:30 pm HL 186
Coulter Faculty Commons High Impact Practice (HIP) Educational Development Program: Popcorn & Pedagogy HIP focus: Collaborative Assignments & Projects What: Evidence shows that High Impact Practices (HIPs) offer educational benefits for students, including...
“Feeling Seen and Appreciated”: Student Feedback Preferences
Guest Bloggers: Candy Noltensmeyer and Lisa BloomFeedback is an integral part of the learning process. Many studies have examined feedback from the instructor's perspective to enhance student learning. However, there is less research assessing how students perceive...
Writing Observable and Measurable Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes help us identify and clarify the end point or destination of a learning experience. If we don't know where we are going, we can get lost or wander all over the place. A course then becomes a bloated unorganized mess. We use Fink's Taxonomy for...