Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 8, Number 1

Those involved in the higher education teaching-learning connection include students, teachers, administrators, and community members. As Cox and Richlin (1993) reported, the primary trend in the ongoing development of college teaching and learning has been an increasing complexity of interaction among those principals. Rather than communication being strictly from professor to student, our campuses now promote teacher-teacher, student-teacher, and student-student partnerships for learning, and the growth of service learning and internships now bring members of our surrounding community into partnership with both teachers and students. In addition, each college and university teacher is now being encouraged to communicate with himself or herself through reflection on his or her teaching goals, methods, and results.