Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) explains how learning is influenced by the limited capacity of working memory. By understanding and managing different types of cognitive load, faculty can design more ...

Management expert William G. Ouchi wants to let educators in on a secret: The key to improving student achievement is lightening teaching loads. Mr. Ouchi lays out that message in a new book, The ...

This document outlines teaching load, course buyout, and teaching appointment policies for tenured (T), tenure-track (TT), and teaching faculty at the Boulder campus in the Paul M. Rady Department of ...

The union representing faculty in the Connecticut State University System brought an inflatable skunk to the campus of Southern Connecticut State to protest a contract proposal by the board of regents ...

Harvard pushed to increase the course load of non-tenure-track faculty at a bargaining session last Friday, escalating tensions with the union’s thousands of members as the negotiations drag into ...

Not long ago I had an interesting conversation with a former administrator at another college who had posed this question to faculty members: Would you rather teach larger classes if you could reduce ...

On the one hand, this piece about colleges asking professors to up their teaching loads as a result of budget could be a simple result of contract ambiguity. The first professor in the story claims ...