Blogging to Improve Student Learning
“Most universities press their faculty to add technology to their classroom by adopting the Learning Management System—Blackboard, Moodle, etc. This is a mistake. Faculty often end up spending hours learning […]
teaching and learning
Summer Institute Learning Notes
Summer Institute: Dr. Judy Willis presentation
Some of the Quicktime videos and fonts did not come out quite like the original, but there is a lot of useful information here for review of the Summer Institute […]
NEEAN Conference in March – UMass
Discipline-Based Assessment Workshop Announcement “Dialogues in the Disciplines,” takes place March 26th at UMass Amherst DDPRSheet10.pdf (application/pdf Object) Posted using ShareThis
Discussion Advice for Large Classes
A professor wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Ed: I have this class that only enrolled about 20 students last spring. So, as i re-prep the same class for this […]
Counterclockwise
Harvard Professor Ellen Langer has been talking about mindful learning for three decades. She is now applying her mindfulness research to the question of aging brains and bodies. Her new […]
New England Fac Dev Consortium – Call for proposals
The New England Faculty Development Consortium invites proposals for workshops and interactive sessions for our Spring Conference to be held on May 21, 2010 at the Westford Regency Inn and Conference […]
21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade
Land lines, pay phones, PDAs, etc. What do you think of this list? 21 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade Another source adds (uh oh, I think I see some […]
The Case of the Vanishing Full-Time Professor
First, happy new year to all!! This short piece is written with the paying parent in mind, but does have a few tidbits about colleges and their reliance on adjunct […]
"My lazy American students"
A Babson history prof compares her American students with her foreign students. She sees a stark contrast in preparation, time management, and class behavior… does this sound familiar to you? […]
