Teaching and Learning: Directly related to academic degree plan or classroom goals and outcomes. Emphasizes cross-discipline and cross-departmental initiatives, skills, and involvement. Interdisciplinary or a component of the general education program. Learning goes beyond content to the abstract skills of knowledge creation that students can apply to other areas (higher-order thinking skills). Teaching incorporates both intentions for skills development and results of activities implemented to develop skills. Content is the format by which skills will be transmitted.
Improvement: Positive change/outcomes that can be measured through assessment. Occurs in response to criticism of the status quo. Increases the quality and/or value of teaching and learning.
Movement: Activity defined and in use across institutions; national conversations have developed and are taking place. The activity is grassroots, moving from ground-up, as opposed to top-down. Must be a collective action. The goal is a conceptual shift.
Reform: A top-down effort to change undergraduate teaching and learning. Distinguished from movement by the top-down (versus grassroots) effort.
Innovation: A grass roots effort to change undergraduate teaching and learning.