White Papers
Focus on Teaching and Learning
Edition Three

Introduction
Welcome to the third edition of the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence’s peer-reviewed publication, White Papers: Focus on Teaching and Learning. The White Papers Series is intended as a showcase for articles written by faculty and graduate students at Saint Louis University. Articles selected for publication focus on issues related to teaching and learning in higher education.

This second edition contains three papers covering a range of topics: incorporating mobile technology in to the classroom, methods for teaching ethics, and student-faculty communication that extends outside of the traditional classroom.

The Center staff wishes to thank the faculty members who served as peer reviewers for this edition of the White Papers for their careful review and thoughtful editing suggestions for all submissions.

The following faculty members served as reviewers.

Shawn Nordell, Ph.D. (chair)
Scott Harris, Ph.D.
Dan Finucane, Ph.D.

September 2010
Published by Saint Louis University’s Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence, Saint Louis, Missouri. Copyright remains with the authors of individual articles, except where noted. Contact the Center of Teaching Excellence at (314) 977-3944 for more information or for a paper copy.

Last updated 09.27.10

The Articles

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: using computers in the classroom.
Elizabeth Fathman, Ph.D. Saint Louis University

An Integrated Micro-insertion Teaching Strategy for Business Ethics.
Sylvia Rohlfer, Ph.D. and Alesia Slocum, Ph.D.
Saint Louis University, Madrid

"Reaching Out After Class": A Call for Research Examining Out-of-Class Contact with Students in Post Secondary Education. Amy M. Garczynski, Ursula A. Sanborn, and Kelly Reed Saint Louis University Graduate Students