Blueprint for Learning
Constructing College Courses to Facilitate, Assess, and Document Learning
Laurie Richlin is Director of the Office of Faculty Development in the College of Medicine at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Director of the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching - West, Executive Editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, and President of the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars. She received her doctorate in higher education from the Claremont Graduate University and her dissertation research on alternative doctoral scholarship received the national Gratzke award from the American Association of University Administrators.
Her recent publications include Blueprint for Learning: Constructing Courses to Facilitate, Assess, and Document Learning (Stylus, 2006), Building Faculty Learning Communities (NDTL Number 97) with Milton Cox, "Scholarly Teaching & the Scholarship of Teaching" in The Scholarship of Teaching (New Directions in Teaching and Learning); Preparing Faculty for the New Conceptions of Scholarship (New Directions in Teaching and Learning); "Broadening the Concept of Scholarship in the Professions" (with Rice), in Educating Professionals (Curry & Wergin, eds.); "Preparing the Faculty of the Future to Teach," in Successful Faculty Development Strategies (Wright, ed.); "Using CATs to Shift the Focus From Teaching Survival to Student Learning" in Classroom Assessment and Research: An Update on Uses, Approaches, and Research Findings (New Directions in Teaching and Learning); "Using Portfolios to Document Teaching Excellence" in Honoring Exemplary Teaching (with Manning, New Directions in Teaching and Learning); and Improving a College/University Teaching Evaluation System (with Manning, Alliance Publishers).
She has taught The Academic Career, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, New Orleans: Legacy and Promise, Journalism, Career Development, capstone courses in Education, and writing and research methods courses in several disciplines. Richlin developed and implemented the Teaching Assistant Development Program at the University of California, Riverside, was "Educator in Residence" at four small colleges in Kentucky and Indiana under a FIPSE grant, and served as Director of the Office of Faculty Development at the University of Pittsburgh before returning to California.
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