I am excited to announce that we are starting a special series of blog posts for the Fall 2014 term. During the recent Graduate TA Orientation, we asked our students to pose some questions about active learning and some of their concerns about teaching. They had fantastic questions! Now, our ASU community will be posting responses to these questions, and I am sure we will all gain insights! I invite you to post additional comments below, and help us build a faculty learning community. Our first guest blogger is Michael Angilletta, PhD. He is a SoLS Professor, Senior Sustainability Scholar and the new Director of Undergraduate Programs at the School of Life Sciences in Arizona State University. What do you do when students come up with aggressive opinions that contradict well-accepted values during teaching? ("I don't believe in evolution" or "global warming is a scam") Your worst fear as a teacher of biology will eventually come to pass . A studen...

The final webinar of the summer shared numerous links, resources and insights into topics like flipped classrooms, student engagement, online learning, and assessment. We want to thank our panel of experts, Bina Vanmali, PhD, Peter Van Leusen, PhD, and Irma Sandercock for their thoughtful responses to YOUR questions. It was a great discussion! To view the recording, click here: https://connect.asu.edu/p81yg7edm88/ Below are some of the links that were shared: Faculty Focus: http://www.facultyfocus.com Partnership for 21st Century Skills: http://www.p21.org\ Quality Matters: https://www.qualitymatters.org/ TeachOnline Blog: teachonline.asu.edu SucceedOnline: http://succeedonline.asu.edu Teaching Professor listserv - http://web.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/Tomprof/index.shtml HapYak: http://corp.hapyak.com Academic Integrity: http://libguides.asu.edu/integrity Sign up to record videos: http://onlinestudio.asu.edu/studio-calendar Arina's Teaching Blog: http://qaetools.blo...