2008

A Seminar with Dr. Stephen Brookfield Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Koussevitzky Arts Center Room 111 3:00 – 5:30pm, followed by a reception “Opening Minds: The Role of Discussion in Fostering […]

If you have a few minutes, this is a very interesting post to read from the Academic Commons. In it, the author — Professor Luke Fernandez of Weber State College […]

Instructors new to technology sometimes think they can simply record their standard 50-minute classroom lecture and put it online. And many are discovering that students tune out way before the […]

As you may know, BCC will be piloting the Chalk and Wire Eportfolio 2 product as part of our ongoing core competency implementation. Just yesterday I successfully input into Eportfolio […]

BCC just finished its first pilot of the Getting Results new faculty training program on May 20th, a six-module, 18 hour course highlighting important instructional topics like classroom community, technology, […]

Dori, Natalie, and Chuck Prescott attended this meeting at UMass Amherst on May 13. There were some excellent presentations on collaborative tools used at Bentley College, Bryant College, and Worcester […]

This is a remarkably hard thing to do. From the meaning of words like “useful,” “reliable,” or “frequent,” up to understanding the “social acceptability” of survey responses. Here are some […]

Our 7 members who are going through the new faculty program called “Getting Results” have now passed the halfway point (3 out of the 6 sessions completed!). Last Friday (4/25), […]

This Adjunct night consisted of opening remarks by Dean Feinerman, followed by an Information Session where adjuncts could speak to various BCC office representative and pick up brochures and other […]

This video (shown in the CTL on April 23) from the Derek Bok School of Education at Harvard, presented a case study of a physics class using Active Learning. One […]