How Can We Measure Commitment to Undergraduate Teaching?

It may be time to develop a methodology to improve the U.S. News & World Report Best Undergraduate Teaching rankings.

What Works in Blended Learning

Researchers dig into the literature for clues into what digital learning approaches and practices produce the most student learning gains -- and which don't.

Building Real Community Online with Free Apps

Giving students "voice, choice and connectivity" will help them gain a sense of belonging in a group even when they're states and countries apart.

New Directions in Instructional Design: Keeping Pace in a Time of Rapid Change

Instructional designers span a wide range of skills, duties, and titles, and although the field goes back generations, the infusion of technology has resulted in fundamental changes in instructional designer responsibilities, the tools available, and the models used.

Monarch Migration

While flipping through a scientific journal, biological sciences professor Mark Kirk came across a story about the sensory mechanisms that a monarch butterfly uses to navigate its migration flight between Mexico and North America.

Celebration of Teaching

May 16-17, 2017

Students Who Don’t Participate in Class Discussions: They Are Not All Introverts

Students benefit from working in groups and actively participating in class sessions. Given these benefits, there remains a major challenge in all of this: getting all students to participate in class discussions.

Let’s Talk

On any given day in the hallways of the School of Journalism, you might hear a particular voice — a big voice. It contains enough rasp and flint that you’d instinctively avoid provoking its higher decibels. It’s also bright, forthright, quick to laugh, in the moment. That’s Earnest Perry “working the halls,” as one colleague…

Mizzou Receives AAU Grant

The University of Missouri is one of 12 universities to receive a grant from the Association of American Universities (AAU) to further existing efforts to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

Sociology Professor Wayne Brekhus Talks Research and Working with Undergraduates

Sociological research is often different than typical scientific research. It is more centered around interviews and people instead of being centered around a lab environment. Dr. Wayne Brekhus explains how his students conduct their research and how he guides them.