U-Pace: Do They Write?
Content-chunking, frequent assessment, mastery learning, individualized coaching – sounds like a winning formula… but do the students write anything? http://www4.uwm.edu/power/unique-teaching-method-earns-national-attention
2011
Conference: “Higher Education For All: Mission Impossible, Mission Imperative”
This conference will take place at UMass Amherst, Friday, September 23, 2011. The call for proposals is up on their website: http://www.umass.edu/studentsuccessconference/index.php
Uses for Twitter, Part 1
As many of my colleagues know, I have not been a big fan of Twitter for academic purposes. Why? The impression I had is: Twitter is tacky. Great if you […]
Quality DOES exist in Online Education
Please read this WCET post by Diana Goldsmith of the CT Distance Learning Consortium. In the post, she makes a strong case for the efforts colleges have made to support […]
More on the “Is College Worth It Anymore” Front
This recent New Yorker article goes in depth into many of the issues surrounding the cost of college versus can I ever make enough money to justify it versus they […]
Bad Job Market: Why Media Is Wrong About Value Of College Degree | The New Republic
This article by Kevin Carey notes that since the early 1980s the press has been reporting the same story of college grads ending up in low-skills jobs. His major point […]
Announcement: BCC Summer Institute on Universal Design & Online Accessibility
The Fourth Annual BCC Title III Summer Institute: Universal Design & Online Accessibility Led by Dr. Steve Fadden, Director, Landmark College Institute for Research and Training Berkshire Community College Campus […]
Resources shared on Twitter from the SUNY CIT conference
For your summer enjoyment: Zotero – a browser add-in tool for reference citations http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide Patterns for Online Discussions http://hillside.net/plop/2010/papers/osullivan.pdf Adventures in Open Source: Lessons Learned at Purchase College http://www.slideshare.net/keith.landa/cit-2011-adventures-in-open-source
Even More from the Delhi Moodle Moot: Course Design Tips in Moodle
Michelle Moore of Remote Learner gave an excellent presentation on good course design in Moodle, from the point of view of navigation and presentation of resources. I may indulge in […]
More on the Delhi Moodle Moot
Moodle Moot at Delhi sessions continued Tuesday (https://confluence.delhi.edu/display/CIS/SUNY+Delhi+MoodleMoot+2011). The author of this blog presented on the online pedagogy course she has developed to train new online instructors. Other sessions included […]
