The Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC) advances excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship by partnering with the Western Carolina University community through collaboration, creation, and celebration.
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In case you missed the last news from the CFC, find the most recent posts below. To catch up with all communications, vists the CFC News page or check out the CFC Newsletter Archive.
“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...
Small Teaching: Interleaving
3rd post of 9 in the Small Teaching SeriesSmall Teaching by J.M. Lang presents methods for making small changes in your teaching practices (hence the name) that can significantly improve your students’ learning. Each chapter provides the research-based evidence behind...
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