student learning

"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: […]

Understanding Gartner's hype cycle

The image below shows the Gartner Group’s assessment of where a number of leading technologies are on the “hype cycle.” This analysis can help us in higher ed to understand […]

Introducing a Remedial Program that Actually Works Remediation is the no man’s land of American education. Every year we send hundreds of thousands of young men and women over the […]

I don’t think it’s the end of the LMS, but for hybrid courses with on-campus exams and the instructor’s manual gradebook, it might be an alternative worth considering … Does […]

Pics from the Summer Institute!

Many, many thanks to Colin Adams for these great photos!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/carafox/sets/72157618512289507

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

“Currently, 40 percent of all first-time freshmen begin their postsecondary careers in community colleges, the great majority of them intending eventually to complete a bachelor’s degree. But along the way […]

FAQ on the BCC Summer Institute, May 20-21 Q. Is it all about technology? A. It’s all about learning outside the classroom: first day focus is service learning, field trips, study abroad, […]

BCC Professor of Foreign Languages Lois Cooper shows the Segunda Vida project using role-play and social networking to support cultural information and identity