Peter Felten delivered the presidential address at the 35th annual POD Network conference in St. Louis on November 4. Felten’s address explored how current pressures in higher education are changing teaching, learning, and the roles of teaching centers.
More than 725 faculty and staff attended this year’s POD conference, drawing from universities on six continents.
Later during the same conference, Felten faciliated a session on writing about teaching and learning for a broad academic audience. Scott Jaschik (editor of Inside Higher Ed), David Glenn (lead reporter on teaching and learning for the Chronicle of Higher Education) and Connie Cook (Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan) were panelists in this session.