Assessment

At BCC, we need to collect information on the MA Secretary of Education’s Vision Project recommendations, and here are ways you can contribute. Read about the Vision Project here: http://bit.ly/anShKR […]

News: Seed of Doubt

This is a report of a study to “refute” the Dept of Ed meta-study that student results of online (particularly hybrid) courses is superior to on-campus courses. Unfortunately, the authors […]

Bloggers are very interested that people read their blog.  Which means that occasionally, a controversial post is called for! What better topic than http://www.ratemyprofessor.com? If one searches under Berkshire Community […]

Discipline-Based Assessment Workshop Announcement “Dialogues in the Disciplines,” takes place March 26th at UMass Amherst DDPRSheet10.pdf (application/pdf Object) Posted using ShareThis

The Chronicle of Higher Education and University of Phoenix presented a Webinar viewed by a small group in the CTL yesterday: “Next-Generation Education for Next-Generation Students.” The webinar was not […]

Professional Day Sep 09 Evaluation

This evaluation showed quite an interesting mixture of opinions. Most attendees liked the presentations by colleagues, but a significant minority would have preferred an outside speaker. Many noted the small […]

This paper says it’s about online academic integrity, but many of the suggestions cover on-campus classes as well – very useful, definitely some unique approaches — http://wiche.edu/attachment_library/Student_Authentication/BestPractices.pdf

"Opening Up Education" Remix Version

Opening Up Education, edited by Toru Iiyoshi and M.S. Vijay Kumar, has been reproduced on the Academic Commons site. This is well worth scanning and picking out articles of interest: […]

Please click the link below to read the evaluation of the session SI2009evalresults