Teaching and Learning Consultant at the Auburn University Office of International Programs Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at Auburn University

Dr. James E. Groccia is a Teaching and Learning Consultant at the Auburn University Office of International Programs and Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at Auburn University. He was a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Tartu in Estonia from 2014-2024. A former President of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network, James was the founding director of Auburn’s Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. Prior to this he was Assistant Dean of the Graduate School and Director of the Program for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Missouri from 1996 to 2003 and Founding Director of the Center for Curricular Innovation and Educational Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1984 to 1996.

James is the author/co-author/co-editor of numerous book chapters and journal articles and 11 books on teaching, learning and higher education. Together with his International Program colleagues he has co-edited two special topic issues of the New Directions for Teaching and Learning journal entitled “International Perspectives on University Teaching and Learning” (Wiley, 2022) and the soon to be published “International Perspectives on University Teaching and Learning: Continuing Conversations.” James was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tartu (2011-12) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo in 2014. James has presented at conferences, consulted, and conducted workshops throughout the US as well as in Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Germany, Scotland, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Saudi Arabia, and Yakutia, Siberia. His keynote presentation, Moving from Scholarly Teaching to a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Global Imperative, represents a synthesis of his writings and presentations suggesting an evidence-based process for enhancing world-wide higher education teaching and learning.