New England Faculty Development Conference, Fall 2012 Announcement
Note: One of the authors of “Academically Adrift” will give the keynote
2012
“What Facebook Knows” – Where Social Science and Social Networking Meet
This article from Technology Review details the work of Facebook’s Data Science Team – a group of Ph.D.’s who run experiments and correlations on FB’s incredible resource from 900 million […]
Online Learning study from Babson: “Conflicted”
An interesting short study from Babson based on responses from 4500 faculty across 2- and 4-year institutions, plus 590 adminstrators, about the effectiveness of online learning. Points of interest include […]
Five from BCC attend Mass Colleges Online Conference at Bridgewater State
Mass Colleges & Universities Online held its annual conference at Bridgewater State on June 6, 2012, with 300 people and 12 vendor sponsors attending. From BCC, English professor Nicole Mooney […]
College Board New England Regional Conference — Call for Proposals
Associate Degree-Granting Institutions Best Practices Conference “Opportunities to Drive Student Success” October 19, 2012: Nashua Community College, Nashua, NH The College Board’s Community College Advisory Committee and the New England […]
New England Conference on Student Success at Umass Amherst, Sep 21, 2012, Call for Proposals
What do we mean by “Student Success?” Does college success mean graduation? Approximately half of all students in the U.S. who start a baccalaureate degree graduate within 6 years. Some educators […]
New England Faculty Development Consortium Conference, June 8
You are invited to the New England Faculty Development Consortium’s Spring conference on Friday, June 8, 2012.”Making the Technology Transparent – The Professor’s Dilemma” The conference will be held at […]
Free Webinar TODAY on the OPEN resource site
If you are interested in open educational resources, you may join this webinar TODAY at 3pm, no cost, and you don’t need to be working on the TAA grant. Here […]
Worcester Consortium offers summer graduate credit online courses on college teaching
Want to improve your college teaching skills or your competitive edge in the academic job market? Consider enrolling in one of our practical, theory-based graduate courses in pedagogy for higher […]
Lynton Colloquium at UMass Boston
First Annual Lynton Colloquium A day of conversation, reflection, and celebration honoring the pioneering work of Ernest A. Lynton Friday, Sept 21, 2012, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM University of […]
