CETL: Maryellen Weimer on Resources on Learner-Centered Teaching

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Calder, L. (2006). Uncoverage: Toward a signature pedagogy for the history survey. The Journal of American History, 92(4), 1358-1370.

The article explores how the author has radically restructured the most traditional of courses, the U.S. history survey, in light of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Challenges the coverage model by proposing that students should be "doing" history in the survey course.

Seidel, S. B., & Tanner, K. D. (2013). "What if students revolt?"--Considering student resistance: Origins, options and opportunities for investigation. Cell Biology Education--Life Sciences Education, 12(4), 586-595.

In this article, the authors attempt to provide an overview of the types of student resistance one might encounter in a classroom, as well as share hypotheses from other disciplines about the potential origins of student resistance.

Singham, M. (2005). Moving away from the authoritarian classroom. Change, 37(3), 50-57.

Focuses on the authoritarian faculty mindset in higher education classrooms. Depiction of harshness in sections of a class syllabus prepared by a faculty member; Factors behind the breakdown of trust in the student-teacher relationship; Significance of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal legislation to the privacy of student educational records.

Spence, L. D. (2001). The case against teaching. Change, 33(6), 11-19.

Reports on the importance of teaching in higher education. Assumptions about learning in higher education; Components of college teaching; Effect of the Internet and the World Wide Web on universities; Annual global market for training and education, according to a 1999 report from Merrill Lynch.

Whetten, D. A. (2007). Principles of effective course design: What I wish I had known about learner-centered teaching 30 years ago. Journal of Management Education, 31(3), 339-357.

This article offers great advice on implementing learner-centered approaches starting with how the course is designed.