The Mantle Archives

September 2011, Volume 5, Number 1

• Redusing the Cost of Textbooks
• No More Paper - eTextbooks Are Here to Stay
• Open Education Resources
• AST Workshops
• Faculty Development Lunches
• Final Supplemental Instruction (SI) Report

May 2011, Volume 4, Number 4

• The Front Line
• The Ubiquitous Gap
• Summer Happenings at the Center
• AST Workshops

March 2011, Volume 4, Number 3

• Graduate Student Workshops
• Teacher Behavior Checlist for Midtern Assessment
• Course Design and Redesign
• SECAC/ALDP

December 2010, Volume 4, Number 2

• Residential College South
• Contractual Readmission Program Update
• Engineering "New" Engineers!
• SI is Catching On

September 2010, Volume 4, Number 1

• Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award
• Graduate Instructor Award
• Graduate Student Training Programs
• Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
• Supplemental Instruction comes to UM

April 2010, Volume 3, Number 6

• Service: Approach Purposefully with a Purpose
• The Nuts and Bolts of Service Learning
• Planning Assessment for Service Learning
• Lott Announces Retirement as Center Director

March 2010, Volume 3, Number 5

• Teaching: A Complex Behavior in a Former Playground
• How to Orchestrate Change
• New Teaching Tools Available
• Academic Success Training Workshops

February 2010, Volume 3, Number 4

• Investing in Students Is Important
• Executive Function in Learning
• UM Considers Supplemental Instruction
• Mini-grant Awards for 2009-2010
• Graduate Instructor/Teaching Assistant Award for Teaching Excellence

November 2009, Volume 3, Number 3

• Creating a Beautiful Course
• Student Entitlement?
• Great Teaching like Great Communication Requires Work
• Any Questions?
• Attendance and Achievement

October 2009, Volume 3, Number 2

• Bridging the Gap between Performance and Theory
• Motivating the Unmotivated
• When Is a Cell Phone Helpful in Class?
• E-Portfolios: Something for Everyone

August 2009, Volume 3, Number 1

• When Should Teaching Be Discussed?
• Developing Relationships Helps My Teaching
• Psychological Factors that Impact Academic Achievement: Fixed Mindsets
• Developing a Continuous Process for Assurance of Learning: School of Business Administration Model
• Multiple Choice and Critical Thinking Are Not Mutually Exclusive

April 2009, Volume 2, Number 6

• Alicia Bouldin: Not Yammering Yonder But Lighting Learning Lamps
• Honoring Differences Between Expert and Novice Learners
• Students and Office Hours - How, Where, and When?
• Tests as Learning Tools

March 2009, Volume 2, Number 5

• Flexibility, Involvement, and Caring: Keys to Teaching
• Quaker Principles Can Aid Education
• Best Practices: Contractual Readmission Program
• Promoting Learning via Academic Success Training (AST) Workshops

February 2009, Volume 2, Number 4

• A Vision: Quality Enhancement via Core Values at the University of Mississippi
• What is Known About our Students

November 2008, Volume 2, Number 3

• A Concept, a Plan, a Reality in the Making: Residential Colleges for Ole Miss
• Universal Course Design in Brief

October 2008, Volume 2, Number 2

• For Dr. Gregory Schirmer, Teaching and Research Go Hand in Hand
• Adapting Instruction to Student Learning Styles

August 2008, Volume 2, Number 1

• How Can Faculty Be Like Mrs. Lennon?
• Ryan Bubalo - A Teacher in Progress; Winner of 2008 CETL Graduate Instructor Teaching Excellence Award
• Survey: What Are You Doing in Your Department and Classroom to Help Students Be Successful?

May 2008, Volume 1, Number 6

• Student Engagement: A Key to Effective Teaching; an interview with outgoing Provost, Dr. Carolyn Ellis Staton
• A Student Record Primer

April 2008, Volume 1, Number 5

• Travis Montgomery: Student and Teacher; an interview with the winner of the 2007 Lawrence "Shaky" Yates Award for Outstanding Teaching in Freshman Composition
• Devising and Using Learning Objectives

January/February 2008, Volume 1, Number 4

• Real Applications Inspire Students; an interview with Waheed Uddin, the first recipient of the Epps/Dart Award for Teaching Excellence of the Deep South Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
• Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) from a User's Perspective

November 2007, Volume 1, Number 3

• From Piqued Curiosity to Teaching Award Winner; an interview with Jeffrey R. Watt, winner of the 2007 Mississippi Humanities Teaching Award
• Teaching Tips: Student Advice from Psychologists
• Book Review: Filene, P. (2006). The Joy of teaching: A practical guide for new college instructors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

September 2007, Volume 1, Number 2

• Sheri Rieth: Hard Work Will Become Your Work Ethic; an interview with the 2007 Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year
• Building Teaching Commons at the University of Mississippi
• Teaching Tips: Examples of Evidence-Based Education

August 2007, Volume 1, Number 1

• Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Debuts!
• David Willson: CEO of the Classroom and the Pride of The South Band; an interview with the 2007 winner of the 2007 Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award