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Volume 12
Issue One: Visual Thinking in the Classroom (4) - Digital Narratives: Preparing students to be digital authors (Part 2)
Issue One Supplement: CLT Faculty Workshops: Fall 2012
Issue Two: The ‘Wicked Problems’ of Pedagogy and Teaching with Technology
Issue Three: Blogging: A Powerful tool for Student Self-expression, Reflection and Knowledge Construction
Issue Three Supplement: CLT Faculty Workshops: Spring 2013
Issue Four: Blended Learning: An Alternate Format for Course Delivery (Part 1)

Volume 11
Issue One: Educating Citizens: Preparing AUC Students for the New Egypt
Issue Two: To Read, or Not to Read … But That’s Not the Question!
Issue Three: Richard Byford Responds to: “To Read, or Not to Read...But That’s Not the Question!”
Issue Three Supplement: CLT Faculty Workshops and Fora: Fall 2011
Issue Four: GradeMark: Socio-Technical Change in Mediated Writing Assessment Tools - A Call for Critical Review
Issue Five: Visual Thinking in the Classroom (1) - Images as Metaphors
Issue Six: Visual Thinking in the Classroom (2) - 'Read for a Minute, Discuss for an Hour'
Issue Seven: Which New Year's Resolution: Enhance Learning by Getting My Student to Read More OR Explore How Educational Technologies Can Enhance Learning
Issue Eight: Visual Thinking in the Classroom (3) - Teaching with Timelines: Using Space to Understand Chronology
Issue Eight Supplement: CLT Faculty Workshops: Spring 2012
Issue Nine: Why They Do Not Read? A Personal Statement
Issue Ten: Visual Thinking in the Classroom (4) - Digital Narratives: Preparing Students to be Digital Authors (Part 2)

Volume 10
Issue One: Science and the New Landscape of the 21st Century: Role of Universities in Transforming Societies and Shaping Cultures
Issue Two: Teaching Versus Research: Moving the Debate Forward (Part One)
Issue Three: Teaching Versus Research Moving the Debate Forward (Part Two)
Issue Four: CLT Faculty Institute, Workshops and Fora: Fall 2010
Issue Five: Reflections on Faculty Development"
Issue Six: Lecture Capture at AUC: Enhanced Active Learning
Issue Seven: Assessment of Teaching Quality: A Personal Contribution to the Current Debate
Issue Eight: Improvement and Assessment of Teaching Effectiveness:Some
Issues under Discussion
Issue Eight Supplement: CLT Faculty Workshops:Spring 2011
Issue Nine: Pedagogy and the Revolution
Issue Ten: How to Evaluate Teaching

Volume Nine
Issue One:  Inquiry-Based Learning: A Powerful Approach to Facilitating Learning in Any Discipline
Issue One Supplement: CLT Faculty Workshops: Fall 2009 - Active Learning Series
Issue Two: The 2 + 2 Schedule: Revisiting Active Learning in the Classroom
Issue Three: Critical Friendship Circles
Issue Four: Face to Face Communication and Computer-Mediated Learning: Building Communities with Social Presence
Issue Five:  Intelligent Redesign: A Collaborative Approach to "Scientific Thinking"
Issue Six: Dear Colleague: Are You Aware of Self Plagiarism in Academic Publications?
Issue Seven: Using Classroom-Based Technologies to Engage Students and Promote Learning
Issue Eight: E-Content: Student Content Creators: Convergence of Literacies
Issue Eight Supplement: CLT Faculty Institutes - Spring 2010
Issue Nine: E-portfolios: A New Initiative at AUC
Issue Ten: The Value of a Teaching and Learning Center

Volume Eight
Issue One: Learning Outcomes: Why Do We Need Them?
Issue Two: The Pedagogy of Community-Based Learning: Do Students Learn?
Issue Three: Reflective Practices in Learning and Learning Transfer
Issue Four: Experiential Teaching
Issue Four Supplement: CLT Faculty Workshops: Fall 2008
Issue Five: The View From Behind the Reference Desk
Issue Six: Reflections on Assessment, Rubrics and E-portfolios
Issue Seven: Grading or Assessing Learning? Seasonal Thoughts for Reflection
Issue Eight Supplement: CLT Faculty Workshops: Spring 2009
Issue Eight: If Learning is a Social Process, Where Does Web 2.0 Fit In?
Issue Nine: Better Research Assignments
Issue Ten: Understanding © and Educational Fair Use at AUC

Volume Seven
Issue One: “Better Thinkers, Better Futures” (1) - What Research Tells Us
Issue Two: “Better Thinkers, Better Futures” (2) - The Perry Model: Dualism
Issue Three: “Better Thinkers, Better Futures” (3) The Perry Model (cont’d)
Issue Four: Learning Commons: Enhancing Student Learning and Scholarship
Issue Four Supplement: Faculty Workshops Fall 2007
Issue Five : Learning Commons: Where Learning can be SEEN and the Sounds of Learning can be HEARD
Issue Six: Getting Students Excited About Your Course: A Tip from the Best University Teachers
Issue Seven: Concept/Mind Mapping: Initial Experience and Lessons Learned (Part 1)
Issue Eight: Concept/Mind Mapping: Initial Experience and Lessons Learned (Part 2)
Issue Eight Supplement: Faculty Workshops: Spring 2008
Issue Nine: Reflective Practices in Mathematics Courses (Part 1)
Issue Ten: Reflective Practices in Mathematics Courses (Part 2)

Volume Six
Issue One: Multiple Intelligences Re-Visited
Issue Two: Learning Relationships: From Theory to Designing Learning Objects
Issue Three: Toward a Culture of Evidence (Part 1): Developing and Writing Learning Outcomes
Issue Four: Toward a Culture of Evidence (Part 2): Formative Assessment and the Gathering of Information
Issue Four Supplement: Faculty Workshops, Fall 2006
Issue Five: Toward a Culture of Evidence (Part 3): Using Assessment to Improve Learning
Issue Six: Learning Objects: The Return of the “Visual” to Active Learning?
Issue Seven: Visual Learning Objects: Enable Faculty to Focus on Active Learning
Issue Eight: New Initiative: “Clickers” in Our Classrooms
Issue Nine: Role-Playing in Class: Animates Discussion and Enhances Active Learning
Issue Nine Supplement: Faculty Workshops: Spring 2007
Issue Ten: Experiences with Role-Playing in Class at AUC

Volume Five
Issue One: Critical Reading: A Guide for Your Students
Issue Two: The Critical Thinking Rubric
Issue Three: Making the Case for Visual Rhetoric
Issue Four: CLT’s New Initiative: Mid-semester Feedback for Instructors
Issue Five: Beyond the “Sanctity of the Content”: E-portfolios
Issue Six: Learning Technologies: Passport to the Land of Significant Learning
Issue Seven: AUC Academic Integrity Campaign is Paying Off
Issue Seven Supplement: Faculty Workshops: Spring 2006
Issue Eight: Engaging Hur: Reflections of a Service-Learning Adventurer
Issue Nine: The Write Place for Communication
Issue Ten: Multiple Intelligences: What It Is and Why It's Vital Today

Volume Four
Issue One: Active Learning (3) Three Easy Pieces
Issue Two: Active Learning (4) Is Cooperative/Collaborative Learning a Self-Less Pursuit?
Issue Three: "New Learning Spaces": An Eye Toward our New Campus
Issue Four: Learning Spaces Moving Beyond the Confines of the “Classroom Walls”
Issue Five: Toward a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Classroom Action Research at AUC
Issue Six: SMART Classrooms, Classroom Action Research and Electronic Portfolios
Issue Seven: A Model for Computer Supported Learning in Undergraduate Education
Issue Eight: The Course Homepage: Items to Consider
Issue Nine: The Course Website: WebCT or Platform Free?
Issue Ten: Sustainable Excellence in Communicating Across the Curriculum

Volume Three
Issue One: More of the “Guide on the Side” and Less of the “Sage on the Stage?"
Issue Two: “Help! I Have No Focus”: Student-Centered Discussions on WebCT (Part 1)
Issue Three: “Help! I Have No Focus”: Student-Centered Discussions on WebCT (Part 2)
Issue Four: Spring 2004 Faculty Workshop Series
Issue Five: Smart Classes in Smart Classrooms (1) Effective Use of Data Displays
Issue Six: Smart Classes in Smart Classrooms (2) Effective Use of Classrooms with Student Computers
Issue Seven: Writing to Learn?
Issue Eight: Reviewing the Effectiveness of Your courses: Data in WebCT
Issue Nine: Active Learning (1) The Peer Instruction Method
Issue Ten: Active Learning (2) Cooperative/Collaborative Learning

Volume Two
Issue One: How to Encourage Pre-class Reading: The Web-based Discussion
Issue Two: Cooperative Learning (1)
Issue Three: Cooperative Learning (2)
Issue Four: Cooperative Learning (3)
Issue Five: At AUC, Academic Integrity Matters
Issue Six: Learning and Teaching Styles
Issue Seven: Learning and Teaching and Then, Learning All Over Again (Part 1)
Issue Eight: Learning and Teaching and Then, Learning All Over Again (Part 2)
Issue Nine: Learning Styles, Strategies and Practice: “You’re OK, I’m OK, We’re Just Different!”
Issue Ten: WebCT: Our Students Want More of It

Volume One
Issue One: A New Center and a Welcome from the Director
Issue Two: Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs): The Minute Paper
Issue Three: Pedagogy First, Technology Second: The Do’s and Don’ts of Teaching with Technology
Issue Four: Critical Thinking (1)
Issue Five: Critical Thinking (2)
Issue Six: The New Plagiarism
Issue Seven: More Thoughts on Plagiarism from a Colleague
Issue Eight: Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
Issue Nine: The Student Technology Assistants (STA) Program
Issue Ten: Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education