Guest blogger: Macie Hall, from the CER‘s Innovative Instructor. One of the online educational news sources that CER staff follow is Tomorrow’s Professor, edited by Rick Reis, a professor in Mechanical Engineering at […]
Have an Epic Summer!
Guest Blogger: Rebecca Fang, Class of 2019 A little bored this summer? Maybe you should read some epics to liven things up! Homer’s Odyssey shows that epic heroes can have epic flaws that […]
Summer “Camp” – Quirky Videos for Summer Evenings!
Is the summer heat wiping you out? Do you just need something fun to watch at the end of the day? Baltimore is well-known for its campy humor, probably best characterized in […]
Images for Scientists & Engineers: Where to Look?
More and more, engineers and scientists need visual materials for their work. Civil engineers need images of bridges and buildings; astronomers need pictures of galaxies and nebulae; biologists want to […]
What’s the Dirt?
Guest blogger: Macie Hall, from the CER‘s Innovative Instructor. Looking for a tool (preferably free and easy to use) for a scholarly project? Maybe you need to clean up, model, or interpret data. […]
ProQuest E-Book Survey: Tell a Vendor What You Need!
One of our e-book vendors, ProQuest, is administering a Global Student & Researcher E-book Survey. They want to better understand e-book usage and needs among college and university students, faculty, and staff. […]
French Film Festival, April 10-14
Join your fellow Francophiles and film fanatics at this year’s French Film Festival. The theme is “marginality” and will showcase films that address issues facing marginalized groups of people in contemporary […]
Can We Discourage Violations of Academic Integrity?
Guest blogger: Macie Hall, from the CER‘s Innovative Instructor. It’s been some time since The Innovative Instructor looked at issues of academic integrity [see Discouraging Cheating in the Classroom, November 13, 2012], but […]
Art History Teaching Resources: Not Just for Art Historians
Guest blogger: Macie Hall, from the CER‘s Innovative Instructor. The first week in February, I attended the annual College Art Association conference in Washington, DC and co-chaired a panel titled Rethinking Online Pedagogies […]
Materials Science in Paper Conservation, History, and Literature: The Gulistan of Sa’di
Gulistan or Goléstan-e (The Rose Garden) was written in 1258 CE by a Persian poet whose pen name was Sa’di. The book is comprised of a mixture of poetry and […]